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The Greoi'gia 'W'eehly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1869. Letter Upon Deep Culture* Mr. Gustin’s letter in explanation of his plan of deep cnltnre will be found very valua ble and Interesting. We cannot doubt that he is doctrinally and practically right, and that sur face culture is not sound in theory or safe in practice. But every man to his opinion. We shall never Bet ours up for authority in agricul ture. The challenge of the popular Dickson the ory of surface cnltnre is bold, and the arguments', against seem to ns strong, reasonable and corf elusive. From Clay County. Mr. Tnoker, of the Chattahoochee Mirror, is in town representing his paper, and we com mend him to the kindness and patronage of our citizens. Mr. Tucker reports crops in Clay county in fine condition. They have never suf fered seriously from drought and they have not yet been injured by wet. There is no complaint of rust or caterpillar. Cotton uniformly healthy and flourishing. Good com crops and the coun ty healthy and in cheerful mood. Sohofied’s Ikon Wobks.—At this vielly es tablishment every piece of machinery a planter may need can be procured on reasonable terms —cotton presses, cane mills, sugar kettles, gin and mill gearing, horse powers, etc., etc., of the most approved construction. Our adver tisement last year procured orders for this ma chinery from as distant points as Louisiana and Texas, and we hope it may do as much this year. _ London Times os Chinese Immigration. —The London Times of last Thursday has its leading article upon Chinese immigration to the United States. That paper thinks the conflict of races in California cannot be solved by heavy duties on immigration or by street ontrages. It is im possible to suppose that the Chinese can be kept ont of America. Inheriting an ancient civilization and the most perfect economy, but destitute of the strength and toughness of moral fibre which support authority, the Chinese may be welcome as assistants in colonization but not feared as a race likely to dominate in the future. Yeboee. —The Philadelphia Press says a friend of CoL Ycrger, who writes to the Cincin nati Commercial in his defence, and endeavors to show that for years past he has been insane, says: “ When conscription was the law of our necessity, CoL Yerger forsook his friends, sought shelter at the Federal headquarters at Vicks burg, and betrayed cowardice and disloyalty to his section by telling all he knew of the Confed erate movements." Another Chance foe Liberia.—Rev. Wm. MoLain, of Washington City, Secretary of the African Colonization Society, gives notice that the society’s ship Golconda will sail from Balti more for Liberia about the first of November. Through tickets will be given to all colored per sons of good character, who desire to emigrate to their “native heath;” also six months’sub sistence after their arrival. Those qualified to act as missionaries or teachers, whether male or female, will be employed at good salaries. Washington College, Va.—A catalogue of this institution informs the public that Washing ton College numbers 348 students, and a Facul ty composed of twenty-three distinguished pro fessors and instructors, over whom General Robert E. Lee is the presiding officer. Proba bly no College in the United States is taking more rapid strides to a leading position than this one. Its students come from twenty-two States of the Union. Cotton Supplies from India.—The British Cotton Supply Association has adopted a reso lution looking to the speedly development of the railways in India, in order to facilitate the ex- poration of cotton from that country. The re solution says that this course is taken in conse quence of the insufficiency of the supply of cot ton from this country, the stock of American cotton not being large enough to keep the mills of Lancashire engaged. Another Heavx Rain in Augusta.—Yester day afternoon says the Constitutionalist of the 31st nit., we were visited by yet another heavy and continuous rain, under which the city drains again almost overflowed and filled the streets with water, almost if not quiet equal in extent to the flood of Wednesday. The Savannah river, from the effect of the late heavy rains, is booming, and a few more only of such as fell yesterday will be required to give us a first- class freshet and a general inundation. The colored people of Putnam county gener ally had a large barbecue at Eatonton on Satur day, 31st inst. They had a procession composed of the colored bone and sinew of the county, headed by music with numerous banners none offensive or calculated to irritate the whites.— Several hundred were present behaving in a quiet and orderly manner—no drunkenness or quarreling. The Troops in Wilkes.—The Washington Republican assigns as the object of the military expedition to Wilkes, the support of the United States revenue officers in the assessment and collection of Internal Revenue in that county. Forney’s Washington Chronicle announces that they are getting np a little rebellion in the Third Collection District of Georgia—which we don’t believei. The.people have more sense than that. - _ Land Near Atlanta.—The Intelligencer an nounces sales of land at Kirkwood,near Atlanta, by Col. Adair, on Friday. Nineteen thousand one hundred and fifteen acres were sold at prices ranging from thirty-nine to seventy-nine dollars per acre. Rust in the Southwest.—A friend just up from Southwestern Georgia reports a good deal of rust in the cotton in Macon, Sumter, Dough erty and Baker counties. This makes us long for sunshine. Quondam.—The Constitution calls .** Quon dam, " of the New York Times a “Radical cor respondent." Rumor identifies that writer with the . editor of one of the Georgia Democratic newspapers. Bitten by a Rattlesnake.—A lad named Jas. Lawson was bitten by a rattlesnake on the 14th inst, on the plantation of W. S. Bush, near Ellisville, Florida, and died in twelve hours af- ter he receiven the bite. Dooly County.—We think it will be rare to find a county in Georgia at this time without a sufficiency of rain, but a friend in Dooly county writes us that they have had only some partial rains, though not a sufficiency. The re cent drought injured the crops very much. . Two gentlemen left Selma, Ala., a few days since for San Francisco for a shipment of Chi nese. They had orders for five hundred labor ers. The Canadians are again excited over rumors of another Fenian raid. Orders have been is- sued to get the gunboats on the Lakes ready for active service. An Evektvul Week.—The Alabama and Kentucky elections take place to-day. The Ten nessee election occurs next Thursday. The great eclipse will come off, according to ap pointment, on Saturday next Opposed to Immigration. The last number of the Southern Cultivator ■has an article of considerable length from Mr David Dickson, of Hancock, in which that gen tleman very earnestly deprecates immigration of all kinds to the South and to Georgia. He maintains (we write from memory) that the ne groes instead of falling off in number will show by the next census an important increase—quite sufficient for the real- labor necessities of the country; and that every interest of the South pleads against a rapid increase of the cotton crop. It will only increase labor and diminish prices and profits. Mr. Dickson is not singular in these ideas. We have heard them strongly expressed by other gentlemen of intelligence and discretion. We should attach a great deal more import ance to this cotton idea, if we thought it likely to be a practically sound one, for any great length of time. If the planters of the South could go on indefinitely, raising two and a half million bales, and getting thirty cents a pound for it, the financial status could hardly be im proved, so far as they are concerned. But all the probabilities are that, if we fail to meet the growing demands of the world for raw cotton, the famine will find its relief in other quarters, and the South sink in relative importance as a cotton producer very fasti We think our permanent interest lies, there fore, in the opposite direction, and consists in regaining our ancient status—in monopolizing the business of cotton production—in increasing our products, at the expense of foreign pro ducers—even if we have to do it at some abate ment in the price. It is better to vanquish foreign competition, than to run the risk of becoming its victims. With the business in our own hands, we have made a permanent con quest—but,while competing with the whole out side world as producers, our position is still in secure. So far as the practical fact of immi gration is concerned, it will make no vital dif ference whether the South aids or deprecates it It will come in any event In the one case, we might, perhaps, retard and diminish, and in the other hasten and increase it. But Northern and foreign immigrants are not going to ask us whether they shall come or not—neither are planters, who wish to employ Chinese laborers, going to consult the taste or feelings of the community, whether they shall, or shall not, embark in the enterprise. The movements of all concerned will be governed by self-interest. If the Mississippi Legislature and Arkansas planters believe they can turn out the old ante bellum cotton crops of those alluviums, by im porting Chinese labor, they will do it if they can, without one thought about reducing the price of cotton by a consequent increase of pro duct. Every planter aims to increase his own cotton crop as much as he can, without refer ence to the grand result, and the same rule will govern planters in the Southwest in their efforts to resuscitate cotton production in that quarter. Wo hold, therefore, that homilies on the poli tical, social and financial evils likely to result to the aggregate cotton interest from immigration will effect little or nothing. We must accept events as they come and harmonize our interests with them as best we may. So far as this section of the South is concerned we have little acticipation that Chinese labor will effect an important lodgment for many years. In the Northern tier of the Southern States white immigration from the North will rapidly crowd the blacks southward. This pro cess has already began and will move with ever increasing rapidity. So on the Mississippi and other river bottoms of the Southwest, the small amount of negro labor employed there will per haps soon be displaced by the Asiatics, and the negroes driven eastward for employment Un der the operation of these two causes it is not improbable that the bulk of the Southern negro population may eventually concentrate upon the uplands of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and work out their destiny here. It is important to the interests of this section that the white population should dominate. It is important to the whole South that she should grow in numbers, power and wealth. She has j the territory—she has all the material elements and appliances to regain her lost rank as the leading section of the Union. Under the gov ernment, as it stands, sectional weakness is a great misfortune and calamity; and for the fu ture of our descendants we are not disposed to grieve over the prospect that, by and by, the South may disclose an intellectual and material grandeur of position far surpassiDg any which she has hitherto attained. Deep vs* Shallow Cnltnre. Our editorial notice of Mr. Gustin’s acre and his mode of culture has called forth numerous inquiries by letter, which we prefer should be answered by that gentleman himself. We have, therefore, sent him the letters and are promised a reply in a short time which we shall take great pleasure in presenting to the reader. There is certainly a question very important to our planters and fanners involved—it is a question between two radically diverse systems of culture. - The one proposes, from and after the time of seeding up to harvest, to stir mere ly the surface of the soil—while the other insists that the soil should still be mellowed to its full depth. The former plan of culture, we are dis posed to think, is practicable only in sandy and porous soils which do not readily impact A clay soil mellowed only by the original process of breaking up in winter or early spring, would be come, before the crops are matured, so hard and solid as to be almost impervious to the rains and to those important atmospheric influences by whioh vegetation is mainly facilitated and perfected. Reason seems to tell us that, whether to ab sorb moisture and fertility from the atmosphere, which is charged with them just in proportion as the warmth of the sun increases the amount of evaporation—or whether to bring up a sup ply of moisture from the subsoil by the princi ple of capillary attraction—or whether "to give the delicate radicles and spongioles of plants every facility for penetrating the soil and ex tracting food and moisture for the support of the crop—for any and all of these purposes a main condition must be that the soil should be kept in a loose, soft and friable condition. And we have never yet seen a soil that would do this upon a single annual breaking up, however thoroughly and deeply that may he done. In deed, we have seen a single violent rain impact earth so broken up to almost its original sol idity, in less than a month after it had been deeply ploughed. We will not pretend to deny that good crops have been and are made upon this system of purely surface cultivation; but it seems to us the fact must be due mainly to an unusual po rosity of soil, which enables the crops to be made notwithstanding the culture, rather than as the natural result of it. The same plan pur sued with a closer soil would be apt in most ca ses to result unfavorably, particularly if the ground during cropping season should be beaten by such heavy rains as sometimes fall in Georgia. A little experience tells every gardener that if he will make fine vegetables he mast keep his soil mellow. He may scratch the surface in vain for fine beets, turnips, cabbages, and the like. They cannot be produced by mere sur face culture; but be must take the spade and the trenching hoe and loosen the earth as deeply as he can. This must be done with discretion, of course, so as not to lacerate the roots of his plants; but we presume no one wonld question the absolute necessity of the work to the satis factory development of bis garden. We see no reason why a similar process is not essential ,to the most perfect developement of field crops, and we hope to present to-morrow or next day a paper from Mr. Gustin on the ne cessity for doing it, and the best method and implements to accomplish the work. Imperialism. The Herald of Friday, a paper which rarely displays sensitiveness on such a subject, says the delegations to the President from the South to learn his imperial will and pleasure in refer ence to reconstructing their States, must be mortifying to every American citizen, and prove that the politcians no longer look to the will of the people, but have transferred all their atten tion to the government as the sole source of power in the country. In other words, without a coup d’etat we have imperialism. The Herald had not then seen the press dis patches of the 31st, in which CoL Moorman was granted an audience in behalf of the Mis- gisaippians. There His Imperial Majesty as sured the Mississippiaiis that he should wait and see what kind of a ticket they nominated— and whether they would uphold the 15th amendment—and if they would do right he would be glad to have their support to his ad ministration. The Continental Idle Insurance Com pany. See card of this Company in to-day’s issue.— It sets forth the plan of doing business and the particular good features of the same. Though but little over three years since it commenced business the figures given show a great rapidity of growth. Mr. J. R. Hoy, agent in this city, has in the past two months succeeded in having some of our leading business men to take poli* cies in this Company upon considering its desir ableness. We append an extract from a North ern exchange, which will more fully give the history of this young favorite: An Unprecedented Success.—Foreigners have been sorely puzzled by the failure of all prece dents in American affairs; they cannot, from their experience, theorize successfully as to our future, politically or financially. Where the old world keeps to the beaten paths of precedent, Young America, rejoicing in its youth, strikes boldly into the wilderness of the future, trusting its own strength and tact, and too anxious for progress to lose time looking back—our Ameri can women will never be turned into salt, al though anxious to be made pillars of State.— Perhaps no better specimen of this Yankee characteristic could be given than the growth of some of its industrial and financial enterprises. In the month of May, 1S66, The Continental Life Insurance Company was started. Almost from its inception it has maintained its position with the largest. Like Minerva, it may be said to have sprung into being full grown and equipped. “Large bodies move slowly,” was no motto with the founders of this enterprise; indeed, so rapid was its progress it seemed al most impossible that such a rank growth could be healthy, and many were the predictions of disaster and well-meant warnings from aston ished fossils. To-day, the wisdom and prudence of the management need no vindication; in the face of its brilliant success, hostile criticism and jealousy are disarmed, and its officers are universally awarded the credit they so fairly de serve. In these three first years of its existence they have issued 15,000 policies, insuring $40,- 000,000; the amount received for annual pre miums is now 03,500,000, and they have de clared two dividends of forty per cent, to policy holders. Express Robbery in Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel of Sun day says: There is in the employ of the Southern Ex press Company a young gentleman, a resident of this county, and of the best family, Mr. But ler B. Mays, who had a situation as Messenger, and ran in that capacity on the CentralRailroad, between Savannah and Macon. A few nights since he left the Company’s office in Savannah to go to Macon, receipting for and taking on board of his car with him a quantity of Express freight, and one of the iron chests in which the money forwarded by the Company is usually transported. Entering his car with the money all right the train left Savannah for Macon. On the portion of the line between Savannah and Millen, we understand that Mr. Mays went to sleep, leaving his money and freight all right. On arriving at Millen he awoke and found a package containing four thousand nine hundred dollars had been stolen from Ms possession while he slumbered. Not knowing what else to do the horrified Messenger immediately retnmed to Savannah and reported the loss to Ms supe rior officers. We are informed that Superinten dent Dempsey and General Superintendent O’Brien, were, fortunately, in Savannah at the time and at once took the matter in hand and endeavored to ferret out the robber or robbers. Up to this time, however, their efforts in that direction have been of no avail, and the affair still remains enshrouded in mystety. Mr. Mays came to this city a day or two since and was closely examined by both the officers of the Ex press Company and the CMef-of-Police, but was unable to give any information by which a clue to the guilty parties could be obtained; but we are glad to hear that no criminality attaches it self to Mr. Mays. Three men who were on the train at the time, are suspected of being the guilty parties, but sufficient proof has not yet been collected to warrant their arrest. One of these men is said to have come to Augusta and the police here are on Ms track and are busy en deavoring to get a clue by wMch he may be nabbed. In Savannah the police are also busily engaged in working up the case. The mo3t rea sonable hypothesis seems to be that these men followed Mr. Mays from Savannah, where they had probably seen him and planned the robbery, and had watched him on the train until he slept and then bagged the booty. The Sea Serpent. Again. James Andrews, a Jerseyman and a fisher of porgies and the like in Newark bay, a person of sound sense, good steady habits, not at all given to grog, and not possessed of an unusual share of imagination, has just had the privilege of n sight of the sea serpent. The following is Ms story as told by the Newark, (N. J.) Courier: Mr. Andrews states that on Sunday afternoon last, he was returning from Elizabethport in his boat, a small affair, capable of carrying only fonr or five persons, and after he had passed under the Central Railroad bridge, and rowed, as he tMnks, about a mile up the bay, Ms at tention became at first attracted by an unusual commotion in the water about two hundred yards in advance of the boat. Curious as to tMs unusual agitation, he rested upon Ms oars and watched for a few moments the spot, wMch was strongly marked by the waves and foam, when, to Ms great surprise and terror, the head of a monster, as large as a flour barrel, and having something of the appearance of a dog’s head, appeared above the water. It stretched away along the surface, and a black scaly back lifted itself gradually from the water until it appeared, according to Mr. Andrews, twice the length of an ordinary schooner. It swam easily and with but little motion, occasionally raising its head three or four feet above the surface with that pecnliarsinuosity common to the snake tribe. Suddenly, with a tremendous splashing, it disappeared from sight, leaving beMnd it a large area of seething foam. Mr. Andrews acknowledges Mmself to have been “scared almost to death” at the sight, and about came to the conclusion, so he says, that he was to be eaten olive. Indeed, his presence of mind so far forsook Mm that he dropped both oars, and had some difficulty in recovering them. Having secured them, however, by means of a small paddle, which fortunately re mained in the bottom of the boat, he undertook to row across the bay, but he had proceeded but a short distance when a terrible splashing from behind caused him to turn around, and there, as he solemnly asserts, within a dozen yards of him, was the head of the monster, high above the surface ; and, to add all the more to his terror, it opened its hideous jaws, and darted a forked tongue directly at Mm. To employ the language need .by Andrews himself, ‘‘the next thing he knew; he didn’t know any thing meaning thereby that his terror was so great be apparently lost consciousness. That was the last be saw of the sea serpent, (wMch he most assuredly believes it to have been, and which certainly tallies with the descriptions al ready given,) and he informs us that immedi ately thereafter he probably did some of the “tallest” rowing that has ever been witnessed in Newark Bay. The Newnan “People's Defender" says the oonnty jail was burned on the 27th. Fortunately it was not occupied at the time. x*. .Vi< r.r ^ j Does Alcohol Afford Protection Against ‘Extremes in Cold and Heat 7 1 . * NUMBER 2. Editori Tdegraph : It is contended that spir ituous liquors are necessary to brace up the re laxed fibre under the debilitating effects of pro fuse perspiration, while the body is subject to extreme heat The products of the waste of the tissues do not pass out through the sensi ble, but the insensible perspiration. The sweat- secreting glands are never-ceasingly at work in the function of excretion. The entire amount of fluid whioh is “insensibly” lost from the skin and lungs is estimated at eighteen grains per minnte; of wMoh eleven grains pass off by the former, and seven by the latter. The maximnm loss by exhalation, cutaneous and pulmonary, during twenty-four hours (exoept under very peculiar circumstances) is five pounds; the min imum one and two thirds. (Carperter’s Physi ology). The insensible perspiration is favored by a dry atmosphere, and its constant vaporiza tion. Every one is aware of the depressing ef fects of a damp, heavy atmosphere at a Mgh temperature, and the feeling almost of suffoca tion, at such times, by wearing water-proof gar ments. Everycoacbmanhasobservedthestream- ing perspiration and comparatively sluggish gait of Ms team on a warm, cloudy day when the atmosphere is loaded with moisture. When, therefore, a sensation of fatigue is experienced after copious perspiration, it may be fairly at tributable, in a good degree,-.to the sensible per spiration diffused over the sweat-glands, or of garments saturated with moisture, thus checking the vaporization of the insensible perspiration. "When there is any special determination of blood to the skin by internal or external heat in ducing free sensible perspiration, the fluid is passed through the pores by a process of trans- secretion. The presence of a con siderable quantity of alcohol in the blood, at such times, has the tendency to induce debility rather than tonicity; because an extra amount of labor is imposed upon the excretory organs, and disqualifies them for efficiently discharging their duties, on account of the degree of irrita tion induced by over taxing their powers. The necessary consequence, is a retention of waste matter in the system wMch should have been eliminated, and more or less functional derange ment and exhaustion. Now let ns see how far experience substanti ates the validity of the foregoing course of reas oning. During the march of an English regi ment in India, we have the following facts, stated by an officer of the regiment: “In the early part of the year 1847 the 84th Regiment' marched by wings from Madras to Secun derabad, a distance of between four hundred and five hundred miles. They were forty-seven days on the road, and, practically speaking, the men were teetotalers. Previously to leav ing Madras, subscriptions were made among the men, and a coffee establishment was organ ized. Every morning, when the tents were struck, a pint of coffee and a biscuit were ready for each man, instead of the daily morning dram which soldiers on the march in India almost in variably take. Half-way on the day’s march the regiment halted, and another pint of coffee was ready for every man who wished it. The regimental canteen was opened only at ten and twelve o’clock, for a short time, but the men did not frequent it, and the daily consumption of arrack for our wing was only two gallons and a few drams per diem—instead of twenty-seven gallons, wMch was the government allowance. * * * The results of tMs water system were shortly these: Although the road is pro verbial for cholera and dysentery, and passes through several unhealthy and marshy districts, the men were free from sickness to an extent absolutely unprecedented in our marches in In dia. They had no cholera, and no fever, and only two men were lost by dysentery—both of whom were old chronic cases, taken out of the hospi tal at Madras. With these exceptions, there was scarcely a serious case of sickness during the whole march. The officers were surprised that the men marched infinitelybetter, with less fatigue, and with fewer stragglers, than they had ever known before—and it was noticed by every one that the men were unusually cheer ful, and contented. During the” whole march the regiment had not a single prisoner for drunkenness. * * * That this remark able result was not due to any peculiar health- fulness of the season, or other modifying cir cumstance, is shown by the fact that the 63d Regiment, wMch performed the same march, at the very same time, though in the opposite direction, lost several men ont of a strength of four hundred; and that it had so many sick that, when it met the 84th on its march, it was obliged to borrow the spare “dhoolies” (or pal anquins for the sick) belonging to the latter.” Sir Charles Napier, in Ms brisk, off hand style, thus addressed the ninety sixth regiment when he reviewed it at Calcutta on the 11th of May, 1849. “Let me give all you young men a bit of advice—that is, don’t drink. I know young men do not think much about advice from old men. They put their tongue in their cheek and think they know a good deal better than the old cove that is giving them advice. But let me tell you that yon have come to a country where if you drink you are dead men. If you are sober and steady you will get on well; but if you drink you’re done for—-you will be either invalided or die. I knew two regiments in this country, one drank and the other did’nt drink. The one that didn’t drink is one of the finest regiments and has got on as well as any regi ment in existence. The one that did drink has been almost destroyed. For any regiment that I have a respect for (and there is not one of the British regiments that I don’t respect) I should always try and persuade them to keep from drinking. I know there are some men who will drink in spite of the devil and their officers; but such men will soon be in the hospital, and very few that go in, in this country, ever come out again.” That alcohol is a heat-producing agent, and powerfully efficacious in counteracting, for the time, the depressing effect of extreme cold, has already been admitted; but whether under pro longed exposure to a low temperature it is pref erable to many articles of diet, is at least doubt- fuL The large proportion of hydrogen in its composition indicates its Mghly eombustive properties. The heat generated by a spirit lamp is much more intense than that produced by an oil lamp. The almost electrical influence imparted to the body by a hot alcoholic drink when suffering from an intense cold, cannot be denied; but the indigestible quality of alcohol limitaits heat-sustaining power to the time wMch is occupied in the process of its combustion. It is not capable of a slow process of assimilation to the different tissues whereby its heat-pro- ducing properties are gradually imparted to the system, but it is rapidly drunk up by the gastric veins, and quickly diffused throughout the body. Its excessive and continued use tends to passive congestion of the capillary vessels of the sur face, and debility rather than elasticity of their walls. Hence the characteristic “bottle nose” and coldness of the extremities wMch afflict the tippler. It has been already shown how alcohol loads the blood with an excess of carbon, and deteriorates its quality, necessitating an undue consumption of oxygen for the conversion of its carbon into carbonic acid and its hydrogen into water. The organs of excretion, therefore, must have imposed upon them a larger amount of labor .than they can sustain without tempora ry impairment of their functional powers; hence, the sensation of cold experienced after the effects of alcohol have passed off is greater than that wMch previously existed. The diges tion of fat meats, tea and coffee iB much more prolonged in its effects than that of alcoholic drinks, and possessing, as do the former, to a much greater degree, the elements of nutrition to the nervous and fatty tissues, their calorific properties are gradually and steadily imparted. Every one hns experienced the exceeding sensi tiveness of the body to cold while the stomach is empty. A hot meal of course increases the warming properties of food, but oils and fat more especially, when consumed even wMle cold, not only invite an increased determination of blood to the digestive organB, but they direct ly impart warmth to too body by the chemical action of the oxygen of the blood upon their constituent elements. A liberal supply of walrus’ blubber, and the fat of seals, will enable the Greenlander to en dure without suffering a degree of cold as low as 70 or 80 degrees below the freezing point. “Copt. Parry mentions with surprise that he saw an Esquimaux Indian female uncover'her bosom and give her child suck in the open air, when its temperature was forty degrees below Zeroand Sir J. Richardson states that plenty of food and good digestion are the best sources of heat, and that “a Canadian with seven or eight pounds of good beef or venison in Ms stomach will resist the greatest degree of natu ral cold in the open air and tMnly dad.if there be not a Btrong wind.” Without adducing any farther testimony we will venture upon the following conclusions : That the use of alcoholic liquors, in a healthy condition of the body is inadequate to afford material assistance in counteracting the overra ting influence of extreme heat ; -but in its ac tion upon the vital organs is deddedly relaxing in its ultimate effects, by impoverishing the blood, checking the elimination of waste mat ters or retaining them in the system, thereby retarding the healthful functional aotivity of the excretory organs. ' Thatalcohol is actively heat producing,but that it is unreliable as a protective against extreme ooid, because after the subsidence of its imme diate effects it makes the system more suscepti ble to cold, by leaving it depressed to a degree in proportion to its previous state of inordinate excitement. That tea, coffee many articles of diet are muoh more reliable as heat producing agents, by inducing an agreeable and persistent degree of warmth, its miration being commensurate with the period of their disgestion and assimil ation to toe vital organs. J. P. S. Baker county, July 26, 1869. Letter from Warn Springs, "Warm: Spings, Mebiwether Oountx, Ga. > July 29, 1869.) Editors Telegraph : Ye swelterers in Macon, imagine yourselves on a Mgh dry ridge nineteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, toe lo cation overlooked by mountains a little removed, with a pore atmosphere that allows not the mer cury to rise above 85 degrees—the coolest of of water, toe most delicious baths, and you will have an idea of the Warm Springs in Meriweth er county. The accommodations ore ample for five hundred visitors. One season before the war that many guests were here. More atten tive servants or a choicer appointed table and better cooking cannot be found in toe State.— The Springs are owned by CoL John L. Mustian, formerly President of the Muscogee Railroad. His superintendent, Mr. Tidmarsh, is excelsior, both as a gentleman and in Ms department.— The principle adopted here is that if guests be well fed, bedded and bathed they will be free from sickness. The theory has been proved correct by practice. The cMef attraction of tMs place, for invalids or pleasure seekers, is the bathing department. The baths, each 12X14 feet, luxuriously fitted up, are supplied by a spring wMch discharges 1400 gallons per minute. The temperature of toe water is 90 degrees. The principal ingre dients are lime, magnesia and sulphuric acid gas. The liquid is termed, chemically, carbo- chalybeate water. By means of gates toe baths may be regulated from a depth of a few inches to six feet. Many ladies have learned to swim. In toe houses are furnished in abundance every appliance for bathing. The luxury of a plunge must be experienced to enjoy its thrilling deli ciousness. The water does not feel warm—the chill is just removed from it. There’s so shiv ering—no quaking—no dread. The water is light and buoyant, and as one flounders amid the waves, he feels the most thrilling delight; toe acme of Mghest deliciousness. Gen. Toombs pronounced these baths toe finest in the world. Why should Southerners patronize Northern es tablishments when we have such delightful ones in Georgia ? These baths are not merely pleas ant, but are the best physicians in toe Union. All rheumatic affections are quickly cured here. CMlls and fever are banished as quickly, and oth er diseases rapidly removed. The Mghest benefit is experienced by those who drink as well as bathe. The water is warm, not by mechanism, but nature’s mixing; it is not nauseating,it hard ly tastes warm. It is so light you can imbibe any quantity. You quickly learn to love it, and its effects are exMlarating. Those who prefer not taking toe water from toe spout, have it bottled at night; next morning it is cold as well water and has preserved all its chemical properties. Others place the bottles in ice. TMs is a curious place for waters. The Warm Springs wMch we have been describing, flow from the base of a ridge on top of wMch toe cottages (wMch by toe way are all framed struc tures) are erected. Near the hotel is a well of water as cold and almost as pure as ice. Near the baths is a small spring of very strong cha lybeate water, and not far off passable sulpher water. A short distance (about a mile) is what is termed the “Cold Spring” which discharges four thousand gallons of ice-cold carbo-chalybe- ate water per minute. The water for cooking and washing purposes is thrown upon hill by means of a hydraulic ram. Nature seems to have lavished the boons of health upon this spot, wMch is most MgMy adapted to pleasure and health. There are now about one hundred guests gathered, chiefly from Savannah, Macon, Col umbus, Alabama and New Orleans. In point of looks the ladies will compare favorably with those of any section, and in attractiveness can not be excelled. Enough young people are col lected to form nightly six setts in the bait room, wMch is one of toe handsomest apartments in toe State. To toe inspiring music of an excel lent band toe “light fantastic” is merrily tripped. Croquet, a shooting gallery, parlor “keno,” cards, ten pins and other amusements serve to banish care and render life for the nonce a hap py holiday. Lover’s retreats and charming walks make glad toe hearts that desire to have but a single thought and beat as one. A mile away is a Mgh mountain called “The View.” From its summit Central Georgia is seen mapped before toe enraptured gaze. To the right looms up Stone Mountain, and to the left, visible with good glance, hoary “Lookout” reveals the north ern border, while before you sleeps succession of hills and dales, forests and waving meadows stretching far away to toe “heaven kissed hills" that bound the distant horizon. Upon this mountain is a beautiful drive three miles in length, equal to a shell road, and as you glide along behind a fast team that scorns slow mo tions, with a radiant companion beside you, you feel a bounding elasticity, an invigoration of body and mind that makes its recollection a joy forever. To those who desire creature com forts—in toe men of course—it may be whis pered that here is one of toe finest bar and bil liard saloons in toe State, presided over by one of toe most happily tasteful of “mixers.” Oh, it is a glorious place for fun, frolic, exquisite enjoyment, or if the fastidious prefer—fasMon- able, dignified laziness and good-for-nothing- ness! The hottest day yet the mercury has not been higher than eighty-two degrees. At night blankets are required. Mosquitoes are but memories of cities. Large crowds are expected here in a few days —among them toe most beautiful maidens in this, and other States. Of course in their train will follow handsome gentlemen. In toe ante helium days this was known ns one of toe most fasMonable resorts in Georgia, and it is again resuming its former character. No one need be sick, or weak, or despondent, in these “dig- gins," for every toing abounds to furnish health, strength and pleasure. Over two hundred guests will be here by next week. Exquisites abound everywhere. We are not devoid of them. One, now vanished, who parts his hair in the middle, and wore excruciating boots, was asked toe other night to dance the Lancers. His reply was, after striking an atti tude, “I daunt datwee toe blarsted Launcers;’’ and he didn’t. He came prepared for a conver sational, not a dancing party, and the above quo tation was a specimen. ■ X : The most approved style now of addressing a lady—especially for youthful bashfulne68—is to commence with peaches and then praise a sis ter. Passing through the rooms toe other night, we heard a ‘Modest, loving, youthful pair,” toe lady loving, toe gentleman basMul, at toe task. He offered his peach and added, “Miss , I do admire your sister so much.” Her reply we did not catch, but a man came out in a little while looking very miserable, and admiration was lost to a sister. “Keep on the sweet talk,” is toe order among the loving. We ask xeaders for information—if a lady with a sweet bloom upon her cheek, holds by its Bide a peach, with rarest coloring, nature’s choicest work, and asks you, “is it not lovely?” wMch would you think she meant to ask was lovely—the peach or cheek ? Young men and fledgelings only need answer. Plenty of rain in this section. Com is made. A good deal of it raised, but not enough to sup ply the demand. Cotton all right and fruiting finely. Judging by toe orchards at the Springs, peaches and watermelons abound. Don’t you remember toe well-told tale during the war, wMch runs tonsly: A cavalry compa ny marching through a lane, was ordered by the Captain to “close up.” A little barefooted girl by toe roadside, lifting her dress pretty loftily, called out innocently, “Is this high enough, Captain?” I’ll “close up," Messrs Editors. Board here, $40 per month. You get far more than you pay for. Mails are daily. To reach here, come tia Geneva, on the Southwestern Railroad. Fare from there here, $4. We have many belies, and the song of each heart Is : Somebody will be at the ball to-night, Somebody that loves me well; And my heart will throb, and her cheek grow bright As toe rose in her native delL _ Loafer. Prentice asks tMs question: Since the Gov ernment tamed out an office-holder for marry ing John H. Surratt’s sister, why does it not turn ont men for going to see John Wilkes Booth’s brother upon toe stage ? jB"ST TELEGRAPH. From Washington* Washington, August 2.—The public debt shows a coin balance of sixty-six millions—coin certificates thirty-eix and a half millions—currency balance twenty-three millions—sinking fund twelve millions and other bonds purchased fifteen millions. Mississippi—the editors of the Canton Mail, Ya» zoo Banner, Winona Democrat, and Grenada Sen tinel, visited Gen. Dent with assurances of their support. A delgation from Norfolk, Va., headed by the member of Congress from that District is at the Navy Department, urging toe removal of the Con servatives from the navy yard. There will be no regular Cabinet meeting until September, unless emergency requires it. Boutwell will be absent three weeks. The Commissioner of Agriculture has received advices of toe appearance of toe caterpillar in sea island cotton. Among Superintendent Clapp’s apprentices are two colored. Three spurious legal tender tens were taken at the Treasury to day. New plates for legal tenders, from one dollar to a thousand, are in course of preparation. There is no safety in receiving greenback tens. This remark does not apply to national bank tens. Washington, August' 1.—The Secretary of toe Treasury orders the Treasurer of New York to pur chase two millions of bonds weekly during August, in addition to one million every two weeks for sink ing fund. Boutwell leaves here to-night, to be absent two weeks. The debt statement shows* rednetion of seven and a quarter millions. Yellow Fever at Key West. Our latest advices from Key West reported toe fever as still raging, and very fatal in its results. The Key West Dispatch of toe 17th ultimo says: .• Telegrams and letters have reached this place from some of our former residents, now absent, inquiring if we “have fever.” We answer you, and add thatrwe now have sufficient material for it to work upon. Unless your business is of such character as to warrant toe hazard of life in its prosecution, we advise all of you to stay away. In another article the Dispatch says: We neither see how public or private good is to be obtained by an attempt to conceal toe fact that we are at present as a town afflicted with fever of a dangerens character. Some of our physicians maintain that it is not yellow fe ver—very well! we agree that you shall name it blue, black, green, wMte typhoid; or any oth er fever. The result is death in six cases out of ten. We shall not quarrel about the name, but is it generous, is it just, is it honest, that we should attempt to conceal the fact, and tons induce persons to come among us at the hazard of life, merely because it may prevent ns from making a few hundred or a few thousand dol lars ? Human life is too precious for that The mortality among toe troops in garrison is great. The Dispatch says : New mounds have risen within the past two weeks. Six coffins per day, as we are informed, form part of the rations ordered and issued for the troops now here in garrison. The sharp three volleys each morning an- r ounce the sad fate of one or more of these de voted Unionists. The Southwest Looking Up. The New York Journal of Commerce has ad vices from the cotton region of the southwest which report toe bottom lands improving in E rice, in expectation of the arrival of Chinese ibor. A real estate agent i&Mississippi writes that toe price of plantations along toe river has advanced from twenty-five to fifty per cent, within the past few months. Similar informa tion comes from several points in Louisiana. The cotton crop in these two States promises very weU, and the planters are intending to in vest their surplus in toe purchase of more allu vial lands, to be ready for the. Chinese immigra tion wMch, it is thought, will be under fair headway by toe next season. In Louisiana it is proposed to set a large foroe of Chinese at work, as soon as they can be obtained, upon toe re building of the levees—wMch are now in a sad ly dilapidated oondition. The levees of Missis sippi are fortunately in a much better state: They have been finished to the extent of two hundred and fifteen miles, and but ten more await completion. To do the remaining work it is proposed to raiHe $300,000 by a tax of one cent per pound on the new cotton crop, and also by a small land tax. We are happy to reoord these evidences of enterprise and renewed hope in the southwest.—Charleston Neva. Cotton and the Cater^ii^ t. % tott.'LSS.S SJL8“ 1 "»h. “ abundance of itoi, and mu toff ,S cloudy, showery weathetthat seneralte c °ol the advent of the cateft«ii.° it is raining, and the iMcations aetV™ ^ for a wet spelL Our Alab^J^^ * the appearance of toe wo®, but* 8 ® 9 8o ‘* chronicle any depredations. w The Tuskegee News says rV° lnabM San. We regret to have to Btate tint * ha has made its appearance in song ®^POlii county. It is also reported in K j®”" tfe and Butler counties. WDes > D«Uu The Eufaula News: \ There is on exMMtion at toe Pl^ house a bottle of the genuine catterpil are from a plantation only a few ail e ’ Eufaula, and were brought in this mn satisfy “doubting souls” as to their ance. The Montgomery Advertiser: ’ We regret very much to say that ft • well authenticated that toe worms h»« U nov ed in the cotton in this county. We t^'***' sunshine and warm weather may retards $?‘ eS i^- the8 5 d « 8tj ? lctive enemies of the** ' Everything depends upon the WotZl^ 011 they multiply as fa* as formerly”^’ & crop will be out short at least one half C °^ ( * The Union Springs Times: \ . The caterpillar is present on some r>W \ in this county. ^““ttioiu Another Ocean Hyttery. The steamsMp United Kingdom, , our readers are now aware, sailed frnm ** of New York for Glasgow on tha™ - From Louisiana. New Orleans, August 2.—The Internal Revenue receipts of the First Louisiana District (Collector Stockdale) for toe months of May, June and July* 1869, shows an increase over the collections for the same months In 1868 of one hundred and eighty- five thousand dollars. The sMp Pauline David, from Liverpool, took fire on toe southwest pass of the bar this morning. The wrecking boat, Osage, and the tugs Bepublio and Perry, filled her with water, and sAved toe sMp,with but little damage. The cargo was seriously dam aged—chiefly by water. The fire originated aft, be tween toe decks—cause unknown. The Mexican bark, Non-Intervento, has on board the Captain and crew of toe schooner Zaven Steer- en, whom she picked up in a long boat, twenty- three miles off the southwest pass. Capt. Hemmes, of toe Steeren, reports that on toe 23d of July, in latitude twenty-three degrees—longitude eighty- six, toe schooner sprung a leak, and sunk. She was from Trinidad, and bound for Tabasco. The crew were eight days in the boat when rescued. From Cuba. New York, August 2.—The Cuban Junta has ad vices that Jordan has captured Gen. Latorre after routing his forces. Havana, via Key West, July 31.—On Wednesday five thousand negro insurgents attacked Puerto Principe and raided the city. Four hundred Span ish troops attacked them, and after a severe strag gle too insurgents retired in good order, having cap tured and destroyed provisions valued at fifty thou sand dollars. The Spaniards lost 11 killed. The Insurgents left 84 wounded in toe town. A patrole detachment after destroying fifteen plantations de feated toe Spanish Colonel Camara, wounding Mm and compelling a retreat. The negro raid on Puer to Principe enabled many Cubans to escape from toe Spaniards. Captured correspondence has led to further confiscation. More troops are demanded for the Interiorwhere toe Insurgents are increasing in activity. Foreign News. Paris, August 2.—The Evening Monitor has in formation that IJon Carlos has re-entered France and General Prim is about to leave Madrid on trip to Ticheyfor Ms health. The statement of toe Moniteur is generally credited, and is regarded as proof that the Carlist movement is ended. Madrid, August 1.—The Carlist forces in La Ma ncha became disorganized and have disappeared from the Province. The party in Leon is hemmed in by troops with no chance escape. The floating bath house of Valincia suddenly sunk yesterday and many persons within the structure were carried down and drowned. General News. Omaha, August 1.—The workmen on the bridge having struck, Chinese are coming to take their places. Pekin, III., August 2.—The leader of the gang of horse tMeves wMch killed toe Sheriff was hong to-day. In toe final straggle toe leader cut several lynchers, one fatally. Augusta, august 2.—The recent heavy rains has caused rust in cotton in this vicinity. Supreme Court. Saturday, July 31, 1869. last. She had a fair" cargo tffi'SSfS goodly number of passengers. On the® day after ahe sailed, she was spoken hundred and fifty miles from Sandy HooV^ is supposed by some that she was seen 4th, about five hundred miles from NewvTv' This is all that we know of the United KiiJ i since she left her harbor in these waters/ir I now a long time since April 19th. April is -T May and Jnne have followed, ana now Ink* gone; but toe fate of toe United Kkrijn still unknown. That she has perishedwith el on board it is now reasonable to conclude • u from what cause, or under what circumstance^ we are left to conjecture. On the 29th of six days after the United Kingdom sailed, t£ City of Paris arrived in this port and repord icebergs and heavy gales in toe neighbored of Cape Race. It is possible that the rSj Kingdom perished amid these gales, andpjoiJ bly from collision with an iceberg. It is fcJ to give up hope, but we are not left any U tion on wMch longer to lean. Like the nian, of painful memory, toe United Ki. ^ has, no doubt, gone down; but, unlike the'II bernian, has, in all probability, carriedwithid her entire living freight It is, in fact, anotkl terrible sea tragedy—all the more terrible. >1 truth, that no one has survived to tell the tsie. [ The Caterpillar in Florida. An extract from a private letter dated Ctt-I Lake, Florida, July the 29th, and written l 1 reliable gentleman, brings bad news from c planters of our sister State : “On my return I find that the cater; have infested every farm and every cotton h that I can hear of, and from present indicant they will make an exceedingly short job di| It has rained almost constantly for the last is days, and the season is propitious for them, a from present appearances they will be as r, merous as the locusts of Egypt in the dsyijl Pharaoh in a very short time. The heirs J toe people sicken and sadden at the though;! again loosing all, or nearly all, of their yet; J labor, and that, too, when their anticipation ml fondest expectations came so near being taj summated. Hope is all that seems to be left*J The planter’s greatest desire is dry weiiul The com crop is excellent, and quite adeqnt-l to the wants of the community.—.SaMScdiJ publican. A Boy Lifted by a Kite.—A young hi t| Lake Station, Mississippi, had a very large til beautifnl kite presented to Mm, about siil-rl by four in size, wMch he attempted to raise il toe 2d ultimo, just as the wind was increassl and a storm was threatening. The wind dial toe kite so heavily as to drag the boy along ikl To prevent losing toe favorite, he wound til cord around Ms body. At last the gnst bxl kite and boy along in the rapid air cnneahl The boy seemed to be about one hundred feel above toe earth, and the kite five times that dial tance. At last the young kite flyer caught il the top a tree, and was suspended sevatyM feet above toe ground. A flood of ran caul on, slackening toe line, abating the wind, anl allowing toe little sufferer to be rescued. El was found to be unconscious, and so bntej and marred as to be scarcely recognized I: j was restored toe same evening, and is'm T | doing weU.— Vicksburg Times. A good anecdote in told of a house paiaerf son, who used the brush very dexteroask » had acquired toe haMt of putting it ontooti&il One day Ms father after having freqcasf scolded him for his lavish daubing, and all tor purpose, gave Mm a severe flagellation. "Ib*| yon young rascal,” after performing the prfj duty, “how do you like that?” “Well, I 4*1 know, dad,” whined the boy, in reply, bitl seems to me you put it on a great deal dial than I did.” I Pease and his Wife.—The Macon Trustil says that “Pease and hi3 wife” are the pal business people in Atlanta, as we i'll from the papers. ‘Let us have Pease.’«‘-I members of this firm said to each othec And they have, we can assute on’ 1 cotemporary, “Pease”—charming little ot»l whom it delights one to see. 'When onr Mi' 1 | brother, or any one of them, pays ns a yw’-’I will take pleasure in introducing him to “W*| and his wife.—Atlanta Intelligencer. I The Prolific Woman.—We mentioneij day or two ago, that a colored woman bad birth to four children. Since then a large n .1 ber of colored people have called upon her J gazed and gazed at the crowd on the bed.: woman and four fine boys. While tbs a may be considered by some unlucky for tw man, yet in one way it has been fortuua. her, as nearly every one of the sight-seen .1 given her money—she altogether re# I about two hundred dollars.—CharlcAn.. I From Paris.—The Milk of V ioIets a ^| isian production. The elite wiU use n0 . cosmetic, as it oontains everything 1 I an elegant toilet preparation, bold t>y ’I gists and fancy goods dealers. V. W. l hoff, New York, sole agent. . .1 A party of gentlemen from St. PM Vl fishing in WMte Bear Lake the ot ,_‘,j® caught a fine buck weigMng 250 pounds, was swimming the lake. The Marysville (Cal.) Appeal states t-*. the dignitaries of Congress, Eastern and newspapers are rushing over the j tional railroad with chalked hats, and .1 “The tax is heavy, but toe Pacific raincs 1 - ■ big thing on pubho land.” . A theoretically benevolent man on by a friend to lend Mm a dollar, !““. bl briskly: “With pleasure,” but sudd®. J ded; “Dear me, how unfortunate^ I one lending dollar, and that is out . I A man was found in his room at Gin■ dead, with Ms neok broken. The jury nailed in the case rendered a verdict ^1 deceased came to Ms death from excess 1 and from drinking too much water. . A fascinating young Englishman left J land suddenly last weak, wMle VDOPJlt ment of marriage with two of the beu» ^ city. A woman from England had co that way, hunting her husband. ,j “Widely Known.”—It is generally I that the Webeters, Palmerstons, G°\ _ .>■ Mettemichs and Garibaldis of A men of world-wide renown, and where newspapers circulate, biv not , ^1 yond. One of our friends latejr returu-^J China, amuses us with toe roots' of b s inland for some distance, Mere e ^1 oftenest made when he tecame k® 0 ff( l American, was whether te knew or I seen the great chemist ofhisoountiy, that made toe median*. They — Argument was resumed and concluded in the ! man y °* themhivo been 4*1 case of Walton vs. Anderson, from Taliaferro ■ and they speak of Jhh as if n ^il —Bill for Injunction and relief—from Wilkes 1 whole of Amerioa A were at lea** ^1 county. General Toombs, for plain tiffin error. nf 1 „,«wa»rin who had be« I No. 7. Northern Circuit—Hardeman vs. Dow- j . ™ the hip by b M *Vu| ner—Homestead from Wilkes. Was argued by j * * mahgiumt A»rj»toe mp 1 General Toombs, for plaintiff in error—and by partite, seethed to ooosidsr J* ^ t*| Judge Reese, for defendant in error. The Court adjourned, pending argument in the next and last cose, from the Northern Cir cuit, until 10 a. iL of Tuesday next,-*-Jhtei&- gencer. I >. , » ' •' tw' partita, seemee w . article of exj^ and/iteinrenta' few men oonttoent had * ver ,£ f y/ (attention of Chinamen.-- 1 ■ntfafHfliiial