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The Greorgia Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MAnnn FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1869.
South Carolina.
Gloomy reports were brought to ns yesterday
from the old Palmetto State by gentlemen just
from that region. In respect to crops an almost
entire failure is reported. The State has been
parched by drought for about two months, to
be drowned out by cold rains within the past
two or three weeks. • Except in a few bottoms
the com crop was an entire failure. The cotton
was small and stunted and promised a very
meagre yield, but we are in hope it will do bet
ter than is anticipated.
The worst aspect of South Carolina is, how
ever, presented in its social and political con
dition. Negro polities have bad their perfect
work there, and a large portion of tho State is
uninhabitable by the whites. Nothing but emi
gration is talked off in many sections of South
Carolina. Great numbers of the whites are al
ready leaving, and more are preparing to get
away as fast as they can—sacrificing their prop
erty to accomplish that object. Oh tho other
hand, there are large additions to the negro
population from the adjoining States, and the
prospects are that the lower and tide-water sec
tions of the State will be entirely abandoned to
the negroes, and relapse into wilderness and
barbarism. The condition of affairs in that
once most wealthy and productive section is al
ready appalling, and fast becoming worse. Its
utter sacrifice to the Moloch of radical poli
tics seems to be inevitable, and the failure of
the crops there threatens to involve tho popula
tion in the horrors of starvation.
The Grain Prospects.
A gentleman, who has just returned from a
trip to Washington, brings melancholy reports
of the crops upon the whole route, and in the
Western country, as reported from that section by
various persons whom he met in Washington
city. Outside of Georgia tho com crop is al
most a total failure up to the Potomac. Drought
in the early season, with excessive and gener
ally cold rains since, have mined tho great bulk
of tho com. None, except in some swamp and
low-ground localities, seems likely to bring even
a nubbin.
The Western country, so far as he could
learn, would produce little or no surplus. Illi
nois, Indiana, and Ohio would need all their
com to fatten their hogs. The prairie lands of
Illinois had been water-soaked ever since the
seed was planted. The season was unusually
unpropitions over the whole West, and grain is
bound to be scarce and high.
Our informant says tho Telegraph is not a
whit too fast and too earnest in impressing upon
Georgia farmers tho necessity of eking out
their com supplies by every possible expedient
which may relieve them from the necessity of
depending upon tho foreign market. Every
effort must be made to get along upon our do
mestic supplies of food for stock, or the people
must make up their minds to pay high prices.
Tiie Tennessee Election.
As everybody anticipated, the Tennessee elec
tion has drowned out Stokes and his party,
and it remains to be seen whether they will at
tempt the ridiculous usurpation foreshadowed
by the dispatch published on our first page. We
oan hardly credit them with such audacity un
less they are powerfully backed in Washington.
Party necessities may prompt the Congressional
radicals to almost any thing, and they know they
are forever gone up in Tennessee unless some
thing is done. In the last gubernatorial election,
Brownlow received 74,484 votes against 22,548,
for Etheridge—showing very nearly fifty-two
thousand radical majority. Tho late election
indicates a majority for Senter scarcely short of
Brownlow’s, and, as it determines the speedy
enfranchisement of the white Confederate vo
ters, it is evident unless something is done by
the Radicals with Tennessee, she will be of as
little sorvico to them hereafter as Kentucky.
* Moinit Cotton.
A specimen of this excellent variety of the
cotton plant has been on exhibition for several
days at the house of Messrs. Greer «fc hake,
in this city. The stalk is of medium height,
tmt it exceeds in quantity of fruit any specimen
which we have ever seen. It was grown by
our enterprising citizen, Judge J. W. Knott, at
his residence upon the suburbs of the city. It
is stated upon reliable authority that the price
■ of seventy cents per pound was refused in Sa
vannah last season for a bale of this cotton. It
is equal in staple to the finest Sea Island cotton,
whilst the yield per acre exceeds it. We un
derstand that it was grown by Judge Knott as
an experiment. Tho results so far are highly
satisfactory. He has but six acres of it in cul
tivation, and some wise men estimate that he will
pack two and a half bags to tho acre. Wo beg
Mr. Knott not to be making any such ridiculous
crop as that. Twelve hundred pounds of this
cotton to the acre would be worth, say $840.
Dr. Thomson’s Proposition.
We invito attention of the State Fair Com
mittee to Dr. Thomson’s Proposition. Is it not
just the thing? We think so! The Frame of
tho Armory Building—an immense structure—
stands stripped ready for taking down and
erecting wherover tho committee propose, and
the site indicated by the Doctor is oertainly a
good and convenient one, and may bo prefer
able to the river site. We hope they will look
into the matter at once. There is no time for
further delay.
The mobile Riot.
Two things are equally remarkable in the riot
at Mobile,, as detailed in the telegrams—the au
dacity and intolerance of the Radical negroes,
-and tho way they scampered from the sound of
their own guns and pistols.
Personal.—We had a call yesterday from
Mr. Ragland, of that sterling paper—the Colum
bus Enquirer, and were pleased to find him in
good health and spirits. Also, from an old
acquaintance, A. T. McIntyre, Esq., of Thomas
county, who does not bring as encouraging re
ports from his section of the State as wo should
like to hear.
Open Cotton.—Mr. Sol. Johnson, of this
county, brought to this office yesterday a cotton
Btem three inches long, with three open bolls
upon it—the first we have seen of this crop.
Mr. Johnson says the rust is injuring his ootton
very much.
Utlex’s Cotton Press.—This Press is adver
tised to-day by Mr. R. P. Glenn, Agent for the
State. Its advantages are sot forth in the card
and planters are invited to examine into its
merits. After a white Mr. Glenn proposes to
exhibit, in Macon, ono in full operation.
Crops in the West.—A friend who has just
returned from.Cincinnati says the crops from
Marietta northward, as far as Murfreesboro,
Tennessee, are literally burnt up. Prom Mur
freesboro to Cincinnati they are very fair.
, Moss Rain.—We were in hope to get along
without a rain yesterday, bnt a heavy shower is
imminent after air o’clock, evening, and it is
evidently raining hard in the northwest.
W* are indebted to T. W. Freeman for four
< pears on a single twig which will weigh as many
pounds nery nearly. They are from a tree on
bia place, in town.
Tnz gold receipts at the Savannah Custom
house for the pastt^o months were upwards of
wkly Uiouaautl dwlUrs.
Chinese Pnzale Among l’olitittaus.
It is already apparent that Mr. John China
man is going to make a good deal of trouble
among the politicians. He is looming up large
ly in Pennsylvania-the Democratic prints ta
king ground against him in the interests of the
American laborers, and the Radicals denouncing
this Democratic policy as all of piece with hos
tility to the negro. Thus Forney's Press of the
4th,* starts out upon an editorial anathema, as
follows:
The Chinese are coming, and the ancient and
antediluvian Democracy are preparing to meet
them just as they did the suppression of slavery.
The arguments against doing justice to the Chi
namen are precisely the same as_ those used
against recognizing the human rights of the
negro.
That paragraph gives the key of the whole ar
ticle, and shows the position of the leading
Pennsylvania Radicals upon the question- On
tho other hand, the Democracy are making their
appeal to the workingmen against the ruinous
reduction in the price of labor, which must, as
they contend, follow any active competition in
the labor markets from the Chinese; and not
without marked effect’ We see the discussion
has even got down into Virginia, and the Rich
mond Dispatch and Norfolk Journal are excited
in the interests of American working men. The
Journal says:
“We are glad to seo that the working men of
the United States are beginning to take this
matter in band. There is but one voice among
them, and that i3 the Asiatic flood must be pre
vented from overflowing this country. No par
ty can withstand the power of the mechanics
and working men of Amoricn, and the side on
which they arrange themselves must prevail in
any political contest.”
We quoted an article from the New York
Tribune, yesterday, ebampionizing the Celestial
immigrants, and declaring that they should be
fenced with wise safe-guards against the cupid
ity, tho exacting temper and the domineering
spirit of the Saxon race.
We believe these positions stake out a field
of huge and bitter controversy on the North
American Continent, which may rend all par
ties in pieces and produce new and strange poli
tical combinations. The mechanics and labor
ing classes of the North and West will, in all
probability, array themselves in a mass against
Chinese immigration. On the other hand, the
proprietary interests in those sections—tho
farmers, miners, manufacturers and others de
mand cheaper labor. Tbo Western farmers
groan over paying three dollars a day to labor
ers. The men of the mines and tho workshops
complain not alone of high prices, bnt of con
stant strikes and the tyranny of combinations
and unions which take the control of their own
properly and bnsiness out of their hands. House
holders of the middling and wealthier classes
find also a constant source of vexation and dis
comfort in the insubordination and unreliability
of servants—so that it may be supposed that
the moneyed and property holding classes will
favorChine.se immigration.
Even in the South a wide difference of opin
ion upon the policy of prohibiting Chinese Im
migration will probably exist. In some sections,
such as the Mississippi bottoms, it is apparent
that other labor besides that of the freedmen
must be obtained or cultivation abandoned. In
all, it is affirmed that negro labor is rapidly di
minishing and must be supplemented by some
other. On the other hand, many cotton plan
ters are taking alarm, well expressed by our
Texas correspondent to-day, at the probable re
sult upon the crop on the introduction of Chi
nese labor, and declare that over production
will ruin the business.
So we see that every where there is destined
to be a conflict of opinion upon this question,
and its vital and practical character can hardly
fail to excite a heated and energetic controversy.
In the North and West, if the Democratic
party takes ground against this immigration,
John Chinaman will go to the wall The votes
of tho great body of workingmen cast with the
Democratic party will make the radical scale
kick the beam. In the South, tho result may be
the same. Whoever takes ground against the
Chinamen will probably carry tho negro vote
and sweep the field.
So much for John Chinaman, as a party is
sue ; but in spite of parties and politicians ho
will come, and fulfill his destiny. We do not
believe it will be practicable to prevent the
grand movement of the Eastern population to
the Western World. The North American Con
tinent will bo the recognised world’s centre du
ring the present century. Its geographical po
sition makes.it the common highway and ren
dezvous of nations, and its destiny cannot be
prevented by democratic or radical resolutions,
or a Congressional embrago.
The Colored Postmaster of Colombia
Columbia, S. C., August 1,1869.
Editors Telegraph : In my letter of yester
day I forgot to mention a few facts in relation
to the colored Postmaster of Columbia, who by
the way, has the appearance of an honest and
intelligent man, but who has frankly confessed
his utter unfitness for the duties and responsi
bilities of the office to which the Government
has appointed him. He has accordingly secured
the services of Mr. Leaphart, a gentleman of
large experience in postal affairs and a member
of one of the first Carolina familes, who receives
two-thirds of the salary and has undisputed con
trol of the office. Mr. L. informed me a few
days ago that he was never better waited on in
the days of slavery than he is now by the col
ored official aforesaid.
The latter cheerfully performs the drudgery
of the office, whilst to the former is committed
all matters which require sober calculation and
prudent skill. Before this change was mode
everything was in inextricable confusion, bnt
since that time all business has been conducted
with great promptitude and care, and to the en
tire satisfaction of all classes. This candid con
fession of the blacks of Carolina that it requires
Caucassian hends and hands to manage import
ant official matters ought to bo worth something
to the President and Cabinet and should teach
the world a salutary lesson on this subject.
All the eloquent voices of history proclaim
in tones of thunder that the African can never
compete with tho Anglo Saxon in the grand en
terprises of civilization and Christianity. The
colored man has an important mission to per-
form in life and onght to be encouraged and
protected in his legitimate sphere, bat he has
always failed and always will fail when he under
takes to dominate over the descendants of Shem.
P. S.—Would it not be well for the colored
Postmaster in your beautiful and refined city to
learn a lesson of wisdom from .the timely con
duct of his brother in Columbia? Turner, we
understand, was raised on the old red hills of
Carolina, and was once the property of Gen.
McGowan, who figured so conspicuously in the
grand battle of Bull Run, but in an act of rebel
lion against his kind and generous master, a few
years before .the beginning of tho war, he took
the underground railroad and landed in ‘‘the
heavenly kingdom of Massachusetts,” whero he
was taught some peculiar lessons in politics and
theology.' At the cessation of hostilities he re
turned to your State in the character of a Pre
siding Elder in the Methodist Chnrch and a po
litician of. the most radical type. We do not
desire to dictate to this politico-religious in
cumbent, or to censure-his past conduct; but
we could fervently wish for the sake of the good
people of Maoon that he would either withdraw
from the position for wbioh he has no qualifica
tions or else that he would consent for some
competent white man to control the important
i ufiteiiaof the .office. W.
letter from South Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., August, 1869.
Editors Telegraph: After a safe and splendid
trip of eighteen hours Xfind myself in the midst
of this once proud, but now prostrate, capital.
Tho track of the Central road seems to be
well nigh as smooth as glass, and the long trains
move with the regularity of Iho sun in his course
through the heavens.
When travelers from the South reaeh Au
gusta, on their way North, they usually take the
new road direct to Columbia in preference to the
old line by way of Branohville and Kingsville,
not only for the reason that the former is a much
shorter route, but also because it affords greater
security in travel, and is adorned with coaches
of tho most beautiful workmanship and most
comfortable arrangements.
Wm. Johnston, Esq., of Charlotte, N. G., is
the President of this Road, and is, by common
consent, pre-eminently fitted for his laborious
and reponsible office. We know of no similar
officer in the South who enjoys a larger share
of public confidence and esteem. And then it
may be safely said that the conductors on this
line are model men in their calling. Mr. Wolfe,
particularly, is universally lionized by the trav
eling community.
The crops in the State are not very promising,
though they have been much improved by the
recent rains. It is plain that all the material
interests of Carolina are more completely para
lyzed than those of the other cotton States, and
the evidences of recuperation are manifestly
more slow and uncertain. The heart of this
people has been broken by a succession of
heavy disasters. Nearly all the civil offices in
this commonwealth are held by foreigners who
do not understand the character and habits of
this population or by radicals who have no sym
pathy with the citizens of this section. The
Legislature contains ninety eight negro repre
sentatives, and the Board of Trustees of the
State University is a mixture of black and white
members. It is mainly owing to this circum
stances that the most eminent professors, such as
the Lecontes, are seeking chairs in other insti
tutions of learning, and that multitudes of the
students are flocking to the University of Vir
ginia and to other literary centers of less note.
It is the sober belief of some of tho wisest
men here, that this State is in great danger of
being abandoned to the supreme and universal
sway of the blacks. They have already a popu
lar majority of forty thousand, and their ranks
are rapidly swelling by the accession of large
numbers from the neighboring States. The ne
groes of Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and even
from New England, regard this a sort of political
and moral Paradise for their people, and the
white race isgraduallyretiringbefore the rushing
tide by African immigration. What a strange
spectacle will be presented to the civilized world
when in the land of Calhoun, Cheves and Hayne
and Harper, every public person from tho Gov
ernor down to the lowest official shall present a
black face and wooly head. From such a pitia
ble fate, may the good Lord deliver this patri
otic and noble people.
My heart has sickened at the sight of the wide
spread and wanton devastations of this grand old
capital. Eighteen hundred noble palaces and
cherished homes were enveloped in tho destruc
tive flames of Federal hatred and revenge, and
forty acres of architectural grandeur and artistio
ornament were made a mighty heap of melan
choly rains. This fearful conflagration was not
the result of chance, but the premeditated pur
pose of the Commander-in-chief of the Union ar
my. His own men declared repeatedly that when
they entered the city, that it was to be destroyed.
Then a well arranged system .of signals was
adopted to indicate the hour for the commence
ment of the work of destruction. Moreover,
Gen. Sherman was seen riding through the
streets without making any efforts to arrest tho
devouring elements. And, in addition to all
this, the police of Columbia were prevented by
their conquerers from using any means to
quench the raging fires. The crimes committed
daring the progress of the flames are too heart
rending for recital. The awful night of the 17th
of February, 1865, will never be forgotten while
history is true to her mission, and so long as hu
man hearts are capable of sympathizing with
the pains and woes of humanity, and human
lips can utter execrations against the avowed
enemies of liberty and happiness. When an
unprejudiced posterity comes to render a right
eous verdict in the case, woe be to him who med
itated and executed this monstrous deed. W.
Tlie State Fair—A Proposition.
Editors Telegraph: Appreciating with you
the “glorious privilege of being independent,”
and sympathizing with the Agricultural Execu
tive Committee in their efforts to procure the
best location for the fair; and, moreover,
thinking it best to spend our money where we
can control our purchases without being com
pelled to make indefinite expenditures from
year to year, I conclude to say to the committee
that on the score of buildings they need have
no fear, for I can myself furnish them at short
notice, on whatever ground they may select,
some forty thousand feet of floor room in as
good buildings for their purpose as they could
desire—fourteen thousand feet in one two story
building—tho old armory, which for strength
aud capacity is almost equal to a line of battle
ships, and would make a fine appearance any
where.
Again, as to location, if they don’t like the
swamp, or reserve, I oan furnish a fair ground
of as many acres as they want, at the railroad
junction, just outside the city limits—much of
it beautifully level, and where a race course can
be had as long as necessary, with never-failing
springs on tho premises, and plenty of well
water—as good as any in this section. Where
four lines of rail meet, so that goods can be de
livered directly from the cars of either tho Cen
tral, Southwestern, Macon and Western or Ma
con and Brunswick Railroads. The ploughing
matches may be had on the premises, too, and
the whole may be arranged just to suit the Com
mittee. Tho ground can be reached from the
passenger depot by two lines of rail, and is but
a short distance to those who prefer walking.
Wih facilities such as these, and others that
might be mentioned equally good, it is hoped
the Committee will not feel compelled to enter
into any bonds to anyfreedmen’s bureau, or
informer whatsoever, bnt make such selection
of the ground at once, and order tho erection of
tho buildings as may suit them, independently.
Respectfully yours, M. S. Thomson.
Macon, August 6, 1SG9.
The Alabama Manual and Statistical Reg
ister, is a pamphlet of several hundred pages,
edited by Joseph Hodgson, of the Montgomery
Daily Mail, and published from the office of
that paper. It is well printed and filled with
statistical and other information in relation to
the State, and its actual aud comparative agri
cultural and mineral resources, which is of the
highest value not only to Alabamians but to all
others inquiring into the condition of that valu
able State. Mr. Hodgson has done good service
to Alabama in the production of this book and
we trust he will be well rewarded for his labor.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Biot in Mobile.
Mobile, August 6. Last night a serious riot oc
curred in this city, beginning at an out-door Radical
meeting, to celebrate the triumph of the Radical
candidate for this Congressional District. The
meeting was a large one, and composed wholly of
negroes, with the exception of a few white leaders.
During the whole of yesterday rumors were in
circulation that the negroes were veiy much excited,
defiant, and threatening, and meant to bum in effigy
the Democratic candidate for Congress, CoL Mann.
Several citizens called on the Mayor and some of
the Radical leadens, and advised them that it would
be better to postpone the meeting; for if the effigy
threats were carried out the white people could not
be restrained from an attempt to resent the indig
nity by force.
It was thought that these representations had the
desired effect, and that there would be no meeting.
At eight o’clock, however, tho tar barrels were
lighted, and the negroes began to flock in until the
crowd swelled up to a thousand or fifteen hundred.
Many came with guns, and almost all with concealed
arms—pistolB, knives, and razors.
Nothing occurred to disturb the harmony of tbo
meeting, oxcept the inflammatory talk of tho car
pet-bag speakers, until about ten o’clock, when a
jocose dispute between two citizens, on a subject
entirely foreign to politics or tho meeting, attracted
some attention, and in pressing up to see what it
was about, a white accidentally trod on the foot of
a negro. Just as the altercation about this was
settled, a pistol shot was beard, and this wa3 the
signal for a general firing. The whole crowd dis
persed immediately. The firing was continued a
few momenta, as tho crowd scattered, and in t9n
minutes a dead quiet reigned, broken only by tho
tread of white patrols.
A detachment of United States troops were sta
tioned at the guard house, at the request of the
Mayor, in anticipation of trouble. They took no
part in the fray, oxcept to march up town to look
after and stop some firing.
It is not known who fired the first shot. It was
the natural result of the excitement. There weie
not over one hundred white men as lookers-on at
the meeting. The casualities wore few, considering
the number of shots fired and the close quarters.
Many guns must have been Bhot in the air. Tlireo
negroes were killed outright, five police officers
wounded, and five negoes and three white men also
received wounds.
The Mobile Register of this morning comments
on the riot as follows:
“Last night’s work, done after our editorial of
this morning was in print, is a ‘ sharp and quick ’
commentary on tfio dangers we forecasted from the
present aspect of affairs. It is a burning shame
that this community should bo exposed to outrages
liko this, and the community owcb it to itself to
take measures to protect iteelf against a repetition
of them.
“As to where tho blame lies there is no room for
question. These deeds are the direct outflow of
the maddened passions of negroes, inflamed and
lashed into fury by the public harangues and private
instigations of tho foreign Radicals in our midst.
It is a question for tho pnblio to decide how long
these incendiaries shall be allowed to expose tho
peace of society and tho safety of women and
children. Wo hope that a public meeting will be
held to answer this question.”
The result of the election in the First Congres
sional District is uncertain. It will take the official
count to decide.
The Politicians on Tennessee.
Washington, August 6—It is generally conceded
that Tennessee has gone for Senter overwhelmingly
—perhaps by forty thousand maj ority. No county,
so far as heard from, gives Stokes a majority.
The Tribune says: “ For a long time tbe result
of the Tennessee election has been conceded on
both sides. The fight made by Mr. Stokes has
been tbe hardest kind of up-hill work, and his
chances have diminished moro and more certainly
as the time for voting drew near. The few returns
at hand as we write indicate that the majority for
Senter is even a larger figure than claimed by his
partisans.”
The Herald says: “A most gratifying point of
the news is that the contest passed off quietly, and
that all refreshment saloons were closed during the
day.”
The World says: “It is very gratifying, in view
of the efforts made by a portion of Grant’s Cabi
net to secure tbe election of that bold Radical—
Stokes. More important than this is tbe probability
indicated by th9 returns, that a majority of the
members of tho Legislature just elected are con
servative—thus sparing the nation the disgrace of •
the addition to the United States Senate of another
Radicil. Whether the Senator to be elected be
Andrew Johnson, Bailie Peyton, Emerson Ethe
ridge, or some person whose name has not yet
transpired, remains to be seen. It is enough if tbe
Radicals have been beaten in a State which they
have held by the throat for years, through a system
of disfranchisement as sweeping as it was outrage
ous. Thus, one by one, the" States that voted for
Grant and Colfax are repenting of their folly, and
courageously ranging themselves under the banner
of the Democratic party.”
The President says when offices have been held
for eight years the incumbent, however capable,
must givo place to persons equally capablo who
suffered from tho war. Tliia ruffing applies to Ken
tucky, and its operation is illustrated in tho case of
Edgar A- Needham, Assessor at Louisville. The
President has directed Needham’s suspension, and
ordered the commission for Horace M. Buckley.—
Boutwell insisted that Needham, having been a
faithful officer, should ho allowed to resign. Tins
policy was adopted. Needham telegraphed to-day
whether there are charges. Answer: none what
ever.
Secretary Cox and Gen. Sherman will accompany
Robeson and Porter in an inspection tour in the
Tallapoosa. , .
Internal Revenue, to-day. $630,000.
Boutwell goes to San Francisco.
Customs from tho 24th to 31st, inclusive, were
three and three-quarter million dollars.
Washington, August 7.—Admiral Hoff has been
•rdered bomo immediately, leaving the Cuban
squadron in command of the next highest officer.
Assessor Belcher, colored, of the 3d Georgia Dis
trict, reporting the resignation of Deputy Haygood,
intimates that tho revenue officers’ lives are hi dan
ger in Welles and Taliafero counties.
An emergency Cabinet meeting is called on Tues
day for the consideration of Spanish and Cuban
affairs. . _
Tbo Treasury has information of the drowning Of
Thomas A. Stanor, Collector of Customs at St.
Marks, Fla.
The Navy Department hears of some accident to
the Seminole, sent alter .the alleged pirate, Tele-
gnfo. ’• 'J
No advices have been received from the fit. Thom
as foi a week.
Revenue to-day half million.
A number of Federal office-holders in Texas havo
written a letter to Gen..Butler asking his co-opera
tion aud influence to secure the election of General
Davis. } ■ r T" t ’• • '
The Juniata, Dale and Dictator are ordered to
New York to assist in detaining the Spanish gun
boats. Tho Frolic is ordered to got- ready for tho
same service, if necessary.
Tuesday's Cabinet will be full, with Bichardson for
Boutwell; Earl for Creswell; and Field for Hoar.
, . From Alabama.
Montgomebv, August 6.—Returns are still mea
gre, but enough is known to render it certain that
Buckley and Hays (Radicals) have been elected, in
the Second and Fourth Districts, by negro majori
ties. Dix and Shorrard (Democrats) are elected In
tho Fifth and Sixth Districts, by white ihajorities.
Returns from the First District are too indefinite to
pronounce upon with certainty, but tbe impression
is that Back is elected. Tho contest in tho Third
District is very dose, and one hundred votes, will
probably decide it. V * *!
From Tennessee.
Nashville, Anguet G.—Tho returns show that !
Senter has carried Middle and Western Tennessee !
by a sweeping majority. For Stokes'there is prob-
ably a majority in East Tennessee. The State baa j
gone twenty-five to thirty thousand for Senteri' The •
Conservative tickets for the Legislature are elected
General News.
Augusta, August ft.—Heavy and continued rains
are working injury to the crops.
George B. and James Addison have surrendered
themselves to the authorities, for shooting Charles
and J. D. Creswell, in Edgefield, yesterday. Charles
Creswell is dead. J. D. Creswell, charged with
criminal intercourse with a sister of the Addisons,
is dangerously, bnt riot mortally wounded.
Chicago, August 6.—The Chinese; merchants,
Singm&n' and Chaychew, had a reception at the
Sherman House last night They leave for New
York on Monday.
San Francisco, August 6.—Gen. Bosecrans has ar
rived from Mexico. He was serenaded by the Young
Men’s Vocal Club.
Augusta, August 7.—Three men, named Haigrove,
Bland and Laater, were arrested here to-day, on a
charge of robbing the Southern Express, of five thou
sand dollars, on Central Railroad.
The eclipse commenced at 4:45 p. m., covering
two-thirds disc of the sun, presenting the appear
ance of a crescent.
Memphis, August 7.—Reports from East Tennes
see indicate that Senior has earned that section,
If true, this will swell bis majority to 50,000.
Foreign News.
London, August G.—The seizure by the American
Government of gunboats building for Spain, elicited
the following comments:
Tho Morning Star (Radical organ) says: “The
American Government, having exhibited vigor in
favor of Spain by inforcing tbe neutrality laws, now
proceed, equally vigorously, against Spain, and
for the same cause.” The writer regards the recog
nition of Cnba by Peru as ill-advised, though spir
ited. In spite of all predictions, the Cnban insur
gents seem to be able to hold their ground. Tho
whispers of a cession of Cuba to the United States
is now louder than ever. Americans have desired
to come into possession of that island for the past
twenty years. Now, the obstacle of slavery having
been removed, if a fair porchaso can be effected, all
parties may bo satisfied with an arrangement which
will givo another State to tbe American Union and
remove a great perplexity from the arena of Spanish
politics.
Tho Nows concludes an article as follows: “Con
sidering all the circumstances which make it difficult
for Spain to keep hold of her unwilling colonists
in America, and reflecting that Cuba is now in in
surrection, Spain will be fortunate if twenty millons
of dollars overreach Madrid, as the price of Cuba.’’
Madrid, August 7.—Nearly all the Carlists have
dissolved and disappeared.
After tho recent execution the Carlist insurrec
tion band to which they belonged, appealed for am
nesty.
London, August 7.—Affairs in Japan are so unset
tled and the hostility toward foreigners so great,
that war vessels in Chinese waters have been or
dered to Yokahoma.
The prospectus for the West Indian and Pana
ma telegraph is published. The design is to con
nect Europe with South America, via Cuba and the
United States.
A dispatch says the financial feeling was im
proved. French 3’s have gone up to forty centimes
since last report.
Paris, August 7 Gustave Flowreus, wounded in
a duel yesterday, will recover.
Constantinople, August 7.—A proposal has been
made in Council to call tho Vicoroy of Egypt here,
to give an account of his proceedings daring his Eu
ropean tour. ,
From North Carolina.
Wilmington, August 7 The weather is dear
and pleasant, with the wind northeast and tho
thermometer at 72. Tho streets and housetops
are crowded with people to witness the eclipse of
the sun tliis evening. The following observations
were taken from the top of the Dawson Bank
buildings. Washington time being the standard:
Time of greatest obscuration, 6% minutes past 6;
duration of total phase, 1 minute SO seconds; time
of beginning of total phase, 5 minutes past 6; end
of total phase, G}-£ minutes past 6; beginning of
the edipse penumbra, 5 minutes past 5; end of
eclipse pennmbra, 51 minutes past G.
It was the grandest exhibition ever beheld here.
During the total obscuration tho stars shone almost
as brightly as at night. Fowls went to roost three-
quarters of an hour earlier than usual, and bnsiness
was almost suspended in tho dty, so great was the
impression produced.
John Chinaman on America.
Chicago, August 7.—At tho banquet given tho
Chinese merchant, Chey Chew said:
“Eleven years ago I came from my home in Chi
na, to seek my fortune in your preat republic. I
landed on tho golden shoro of California, utterly
ignorant of yourilanguago, unknown to your people,
a etranger to your customs, and, in the minds of
some, an intruder on that race. My presence was
deemed a positive injury to the public prosperity;
but, gentlemen, I found both kindness and justice.
I found that, above tho prejudice which had been
formed against us, there flowed deep, broad streams
of popular equality, that the hand of friendship
was extended to tho people of every nation, and
that even Chinamen might live* be happy, success
ful and respected in free America. I gathered
knowledge in your public schools. I learned to
speak as you do, to read and write as you do,
and to act and think as you do; and, gentlemen, I
rejoice that it is so: that I havo been able to cross
tho continent without an interpreter [applause];
that here, in the heart of tho United States, I can
speak to you in your own familiar speech; tell you
how much, how very much, I appreciate your hos
pitality. and how grateful I feel for the privileges
aud advantages that I havo enjoyed in your glo
rious country, and how earnestly I hope that your
example, enterprise, energy, and national gener
osity may bo seen and understood, as I see and un
derstand them, by our government.” \
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From Virginia
Richmond, August 7—J. D. Harris, (colored,) late
candidate for Lieut. Governor, has entered suit
against the Baltimore steamer Kennebec, for being
ejected out of her cabin.
Tho revenue receipts from tobacco in three dis
tricts in Virginia, from February lBt, to August 1st,
are orcr a million dollars in excess of receipts for
same time last year.-
Tho partial cclipBe to-day, brought out tho popu
lation on house tops and streets, armed with smoked
glass for observation.
From New York.
New York, August 7.—Jolin H. Piatt, the alleged
leader in the Jofferson, Texas, riots, has been ar
rested by a detective 'from Gen. Beynolds’ Head
Quarters,
Allen Thompson & Son’s oil cloth building has
been partially destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000.
From Sumter.
Tho Courier of Saturday says:
We paid a visit to a few farmers North of our
city, and found the crops in good condition.
Some have used fertilizers and its effects can
be readily seen. We saw one field on part of
which fertilizers were used, whilst on the re
mainder none were employed. We could tell
from the road, without any difficulty, the very
row where they began to use the Guano. The
crops evidently show the great benefit to be de
rived from the use of fertilizers. The only diffi
culty is, our farmers are too sparing in the use
of manures.
We regret very much to learn that Dr. Shade
Turner, an old and highly esteemed citizen of
this county, died on the 4th inst., at his resi
dence in the 17th District. The loss of such a
man is a great loss to any community.
Who is Don Carles?
Editors Telegraph: I beg leave to correct
the statement of several papers that tho present
Don Oarios is the son and heir of the Don Car
los of 1833. an error committed by nearly all
contemporary newspapers in the English tongue, 1
The present Don Carlos, quite a young man,
of about 23 years of age, is the grandson of Don
Carlos, Urn brother of Ferdinand the VII, and
Unde of Queen Isabelle.
Don Carlos, the first Pretender, after having
been banished from Spain, resigned in 1845, aU
his claims to the Spanish throne in favor of his
eldest son Carlos and retired to Trieste, Austria,
Where he died; I think, 1855.
The new Pretender, bom 1818, who assumed
the title of Count of Montemolin, had two bro
thers, Don Joan Carlos and Don Fernando.
After the failure of his first attempt in 1S49, to
stir np the jpeople of Spain in his cause, he
married a sister of Ferdinand II of Naples, aad
retired for a long time into private life. Only
in 1859, Don Carlos and his brother, Don Fer
nando, organized another expedition, which
landed in Tortosa, Spain, without proving more
successful than the first. Ortega, the military
leader, was captured and shot—the two brothers
were made prisoners, and, under the charge of
high treason, brought before a tribunal- When
Dons Carlos and Fernando saw that their lives
were in danger, they negotiated with Isabelle,
and finally relinquished ail their claims, swear
ing not to make any other attempt upon the
Spanish throne. Hardly were the two Bourbons
set at liberty, when Carlos revoked his abdica
tion, as, having been forced, it was, therefore,
null and void. Yet he refrained from all farther
undertakings and retired to his Castle Berry,
Trieste, where he suddenly died, in January,
1861, together with his wife and brother Fer
nando, on one and the same day, and almost at
the same hour. It was generally believed at
the time of this occurrence, that poison, admin
istered by order of Isabelle, had caused the
mysterious death of the three Bourbons.
Now there was only one son of the first Pre
tender left, Don Juan, bom 1822, and married
to a daughter of tbe late Duke of Modena. He
availed himself of every opportunity of pro
claiming his rights by the Grace of God, and
inundated Europe with his manifestoes. But
as, on several occasions, ho had professed too
liberal principles, he lost favor with the priest
hood; and, shortly after Isabelle’s expulsion
from Spain, Cabrera and Tristan, the Carlist
Chieftains, prevailed upon him to renounce his
claims in favor of his son Don Oarios, who,
dropping his former title of Count of Monte
molin, has now adopted that of Duke of Ma
drid.
Trusting, Messrs. Editors, that I have not
made too great an encroachment on your time
and space, I am, yours respectfully,
Heinbxch Steoemeb.
From bowudes County.
We clip the following interesting items from
tho Valdosta South Georgia Times, of the 4th
A Year of Storms.—From all parts of South
ern Georgia we hear reports of storms, that are
galloping over the country, tearing down fences,
unroofing honses, and ruining crops. In Ber
rien, houses have been blown down. In Pierce,
there have been numerous storms, and consid
erable damage done. The frame of the Metho-
odist church, which was building, in Blackshear,
was blown down. We heard of one place, Mr.
Berry Henderson’s, that was visited by two hur
ricanes, one in the track of the other—an unus
ual occurrence. The damage to roots, trees,
fences and crops, was extensive.
An unusual amount of electricity seems to ac
company these storms. Several trees and a
chimney have been stricken, within a short
time, in Valdosta.
Down the Railroad the crops are looking
finely, and reports are favorable from all adja
cent sections. It seems to be the general opin
ion, wherever we have inquired, that if the cot
ton is not destroyed, the countiy will be in a
better condition than it has since the war. A
great deal of rain has fallen in the flat country,
east of this point.
Remabkadle Cotton.—We have been banded
a sprig of cotton grown on Capt. Wells’ planta
tion, which has eight full grown forms in the
space of two inches. It is of the Dickson va
riety and is hard to beat. Mr. J. C. Wisen-
baker has some of the same variety that has
produced as much as six grown bolls in the
same space—two inches. Also hard to beat.
Caterpillar. —Dr. Mackey informs us that
the caterpillar is in his cotton eating away.—
We have not hoard positively of its appearance
on any other plantation, up to the present wri
ting. We hope tho destructive insect will not
spread early enough to destroy the crop, and
thus blight the hopes and prospects of our whole
country.
“Niggee Killer” Cotton.—Mr. A. J. Bes-
sent has shown ns a sample of the above variety
of cotton raised by him.* It is claimed for this
cotton that it is not snbject to . either rust or
caterpillar. The staple is good, and it will be a
valuable cotton for this country. The cause of
its grotesque name is its resemblance in color to
the “nigger killer” potato.
Huge Bunch of Geapes.—CoL R. A Peeples,
yesterday ovening, gave us a bunch of grapes
grown on his arbor, that excels any thing of
this kind wo have seen. There are twenty-
eight clusters upon a vine, fifteen inches long—
all of them very largo. There certainly could
not have been less than two thousand full-grown
grapes in the bunch—a handsome present, for
which the Colonel has our thanks.
Drought in Newton Countx.—The Coving
ton Examiner of the 5th instant says:
The drought in this immediate vicinity, con
tinues. We have not had rain enough to wet
the ground, half inch deep, in eight weeks.
Owing to the protracted drought which has
viaitod our section, the com blades have ma
tured very rapidly, and many of the planters in
this locality have already commenced Bating
tjieir fodder. ■ - .
We team that the number of visitors attend-
inc tbe commencement at Atlanta, this week.
far exoeeds any former occasion. The hotels! in 11111 tha districts carried by Senter. It is probable J
private boardinghouses, eto.,areliterallycrojvd- ; that the Conservatives will have a majority In both'
ed to overflowing. ■ , ». branches:
What Causes the Cool Weather.—The
Washington Express says: “Scientific men in
England have recently expressed the opinion
that there is something out of order in the so
lar system, the nature of which they are at a
loss to determine, but from which they augur
serious results of some kind before a great
while. These crudities will of course be eager
ly seized upon by the end-of-the-world proph
ets, who will soon set the weak-minded in a
nervous whirl, and probably make a number of
candidates for th6 lunatic asylums. No' doubt
the commotion in the celestial world is due to
the approach of the solar eclipse, and product
ion also of some of the terrestial phenomena
which have been observed in various parts of
the world. A perturbed atmosphere, such as
bn prevailed this summer in this country, is
evidently owing to the attractive forces of the
sun and moon coming into line with the earth,
as they are now doing.”.
Jlclnuclioly Accident. .
A Carrolton correspondent of the Newnan Her
ald of Friday, sends that paper the following
sad narrative:
On Friday the 30th nit., Mr. Brace well sent his
negro bby to the well to water a mule. His little
son, a bright little follow of some nine summers,
while the mule was being watered, picked up the
chain thnt was attached to the halter, and in his
childish unthoughtedness entwined it around his
own neck.
A dog lying in the yard barked at the mule
causing him to jump back, jerking the boy di
rectly under him. This of course frightened
the animal more than over. Quciker than
thought, and before the negro had time to arrest
his movements, the now thoroughly alarmed ani
mal dashed off at full speed dragging the unfor
tunate boy after him, by the neck. The negro
gave the alarm and the family started in pur
suit. Fragments of clothing besmeared with
blood were found at intervals suspended to
bushes along the path taken by the affrightened
animal. After following the track for about
half a mile they found their poor boy lying in a
narrow road, all tom and bleeding and bearing
no resemblanoe to the pretty bright eyed child
he was a few minutes ago. The chain had come
loose and the mule was standing a few feet off.
Tho father carefully raised his darling boy, but
the bright spirit had returned to him who gave
it. Every vestige of clothing had been tom
from his person. His neck and one shoulder
were broken and whole body fearfully lacerated.
Words are inadequate to describe the anguish
of that mother’s soul, as hor favorite child was
thus ruthlessly tom from her bosom, or of the
sorrow-stricken father as he became consoious
of his loss.
Extraordinary tstory of the Siamese
Twin*.
2 heir Personal Habits—Difficulties of Their
Courtship—Eng a Hardshell Baptist— Chann
a Catholic—Eng a Loyalist—Cluing a Rcbd
BT KARS TWAIN.
JHie Siamese Twins are naturally tender and
affectionate in disposition, and have china t n
each other with Singular fidelity throughout,
long and eventful life. Even as children thev
were inseparable companions, and it -J
ticed that they always seemed to prefer each
other's society to that of any other personT
They nearly always played together, and so ac
customed was their mother to this peouliaritv
that whenever both of them chanced to be lost
she usually only hunted for one of them, satis!
fled that when she found one she oould find the
other in the immediate neighborhood. And vet
these creatures were ignorant and unlettered—
barbarians themselves, and the offspring of
barbarians, who knew not the light of philoso
phy and science. What a withering rebuke ig
this to our boasted civilization, with its quarrel
ings, its wranglings and its separations of
brothers! -.
As men, the twins have not always lived
perfect accord, but still there has clways been a
bond between them, whioh made them unisill
ing to go away from each other, and dwell anart
They have even occupied tho same house « ,
general thing, and it is believed that they have
never failed to even sleep together on any nick
since they were bom. How surely do tie hab
its of a life-time become a second nature to mi
The twins always go to bed at the same time'
but Chang usually gets np an hour before bis
brother. By an understanding between them’
selves, Chang does all the in-door work, tad
Eng runs all the errands. This is because Enc
likes to go out. Chang’s habits are sedentarv
However, Chang always goes along. 3 '
Eng is a Baptist, but Chang is a Roman Oath-
olio; still, to please Ms brother, Chang consent!
ed to ba baptised at the same time Eng was, on"
condition that it should not “count.” Burins
the war they were strong partisans: both fought
gallantly through the great struggle—Eng on
the Union side, Chang on the Confederate.
They took each other prisoners at Seven
Oaks, bnt the proofs of capture were so evenly
balanced in favor of each that a general a nay-
court had to be assembled to determine which
one was properly the captor and which the cap
tive. Tho jury, among whom was the Hon.
Samuel .Wilkeson, then correspondent of »he
Tribune, was unable to agree for a long time;
but the vexed question was finally decided by
agreeing to consider them both prisoners, and
then exchanging them. At one time Chang was
convicted of disobedience of orders, and sen
tenced to ten days in the guard bouse; bnt Eng
in tho spite of all arguments felt obliged to
share his imprisonment, and notwithstanding
he himsolf was entirely innocea’, and to save
tho blameless brother from, suffering, they had
to discharge both from custody—the just re
ward of faithfulness.
Their ancient habit of going always together
had its drawbacks when they reached man’s es
tate and entered upon the luxury of courting.—
Both fell in love with the some girl. Each tried
to steal clandestine interviews with her, hut at
the critical moment the other would always turn
up. By-and-by Eng saw, with'distraction that
Chang had won the. girl’s affections, and from
that day forth, ho had to bear the agony of a
witness to all their dainty billings and cooing.
But, with a magnanimity that did Mm infinite
credit, he succumbed to Ms fate, and gave coun
tenance and encouragement to.a state of things
that bade fair to sunder Ms generous heart
strings.
He sat from seven every evening until two
in the morning listening to the fond foolishness
of the two lovers, and to the concussion of hun
dreds of squandered Msses, for the privilege of
sharing only one of which he would have given
his right hand. Bathe sat patiently, aud waited,
and gaped, and yawned, and stretched, and
longed for two o’clock to come. And ho took
long walks with the lovers moonlight evenings—
sometimes traversing ten miles, notwithstand
ing he was usually suffering from rheumatism.
He is an inveterate smoker but he could not
smoke on this occasion, because the young lady
was painfully sensitive to the smell of tobacco.
Eng cordially wanted them married, and done
with it; bnt although Chang often asked the
momentous question, the young lady could not
gather sufficient courage to answer it while Eng
was by.
However, on one occasion, after having
walked some sixteen miles, and sat np till near
ly daylight, Eng dropped asleep from sheer ex
haustion, and then the question was asked and
answered. The lovers were married. All ac
quainted with the circumstances applauded the
noblo brother-in-law. His unwavering faith
fulness was the theme of every tongue. He had
stayed by them all through their long and ardu
ous courtship; and when at last they were
married, he lifted Ms hands above their heads,
and said, with impressive unction, “Bless ye,
my children, I will neVer desert ye!” and he
kept his word. Magnanimity like this is all too
rare in this cold world.
By and by Eng fell in love with Ms sister-in-
law’s sister, and married her, and. since that day
they have all lived together in an exceeding so
ciability which is touching and beautiful to be
hold, and is a scathing rebuke to our boasted
civilization. til :. •*;',> - v;-.
The sympathy existing between these two
brothers is so close and so refined that the feel
ings, the impulses, the emotions of the one are
instantly experienced by the other. 'When one
is sick, the other is sick; when one feels pain,
the other feels it; when one feels angered, the
other's' temper takes fire. We have already
seen with what happy facility they both fell in
love with the same girl.
I could say more of an instructive nature abont
these interesting beings, bnt let what I have
written suffice. t-V, m -j.r -,v;
Having forgotten to mention it sooner, I will
remark in condnsion, that the ages of the Sia
mese twins are respectively fifty-one and fifty-
three years. '. ; ‘* J ';'; ' . ” ’ .
The Tragedy In Edgefield—Two Men
Ambuscaded and Shot.
On yesterday evoning we were informed by a
gentleman just from Edgefield Court House-
that the Cresswell difficulty had terminated in «
fearful tragedy. As our readers are all aware
of the nature of the affair out of which the
difficulty between the Addison family and Six.
D. Cresswell arose, we will not allude to it in
this connection, but merely give the history °-
the recent tragedy, as given us by our infor
mant. On last Wednesday afternoon, Mr. D.
Cresswell' and an older brother, : Mr. Charles
Cresswell, left this city in a buggy to t0
their homes, near Ninety-Six, South Carolina.
Late on the evening of that day the two
brothers reached Edgefield Court House ana
stopped for the night at tbe village tavern. On
yesterday xaorriiDg, between eight and nine
o’clock, the Creaswells again started oa their
journey, taking in the buggy with them a sn-
teen-shooting Winchester rifle, as if anticipat
ing trouble. They had not been 8 one .
when som9 one came into the' town and saidw
two men had been murdered. A party i®®**
diately went out to ascertain if the rumor was
i correct. A mile and a half from Edgefield, 02
the road to Ninety-Six, the bodies of the Cress-
The older, Charles Crcs 5 *
Grant Still
blackest hue presented
the Tnskaloosa Art Abb
eteetion, and told the smiling agent that he; Mher~Mmd by one.
wanted Mm to put that m the box. A glance: ^ cMn ^ 0ne ball mteied the
a the paper satisfied ‘ Ben that the newAnaer- ^ another tbe 8tomack Tbo latter is »
man citizen had made a mistake, and forthwith J a to hftve that two men were conceded
proceeded to catecMze Mm. Wbat do you ^ ide ftnd fired 8imuh aneously as tbV
want to do with this piece of paper ? was the I* ^ afterwards making their escape-
interrogator. ‘ Dot, 8M, repned tim “citi- He idcntffiRo of^re paSyToeorge *&•
zen,’w.th t great ffiputy,‘dat «najrote fur,, Jr B brotbe r of the young lady of
Gran . t ’ ^ affair. The wounded Cresswell is cow
.running. “Well, said mg, A s all de sameu of riv6te honae in Edgefield. No
it am Ms son, Buckley Grant; and I is bound —Chronicle ani
to go fur him. Three or four who were pres
ent just yelled, and the darkey, looking back
in disgust at the orowd, said: “Dere were more
fool white men now den before freedum.” That
“citizen” will swear as long as he lives that he
voted for “BucMey Grant. ”
The World and several other Democratic or
gana desire to drop the “everlasting negro.”
They regard negro suffrage as a settled question
—as a dead issue. The World is having fresh
accession to its ranks every day—the Syracuse
Courier, the organ of John A. Greene, the
hardest of hard-shells, the bitterest of Copper
heads, and the moat intensely pro-slavery organ
in the State during the war against slavery and
the war against the Union. Many of the leading
papers in the West that were most enthusiastic
supporters of the “lost cause” are following in
the wake of the World.
Eaten up Alive.—We see it stated that Charles
WMte, the lion tamer traveling with Thayer's
menagarie, was actually eaten up by the lions on
Friday night, in a small town in Michigan. Hoi*
said to have been struck on the shoulders by the
same Hon that came so near killing him at Roch
ester, knocked him down, and the other* at one*
sprang on him, arid before they oosld.be beetenij .YmanaA
off had tom him to pieces and devoured the] I' '
greater portion of his body.
arrests have yet been made.—Chronicle >
SentmeL
A Large Western Farm.
An-Indiana correspondent writes to tho Cj®’.
cinnati Gazette, that there is a corn field in be®'
ton county, Indiana of 7,000 acres in good oo •
dition and growing splendidly. This field is to
found on the farm of Adams Earl, Esq., * ,
resides in Lafayette. The same correspond
adds: ,
“Messrs. Earl and Fowler have a farm ot
000 acres in Benton county, in one body,
watered, and with permanent improvement;
having one hundred and forty miles of ne^B”
fence and sixty-five miles of board fence, tnnv
dwelling houses for tenants, three black®?""
shops, «c. To cultivate the corn lands one n
died and sixty-nine one and two-horse p»c
were kept in daily nse, and on the pasture
forty-one bmidied bead ot cattle^ are
ingforthe NewT * " ' ‘
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