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.« lumgqMtM* »WlM ••SffclKW THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1869. Stonthfrn Politics, We are interested in the able disquisitions of the Savannah Republican npon “the philosophy of Southern politics,” but at the same time a lit tle mystified. For illustration, he says in his paper of Wednesday: The Democratic party have struggled against ft [the radical proscriptive and unconstitu tional policy towards the South] in vain, com ing out discomfited from every battle. It is a great evil and a wrong—we know and feel it to be so—but it is evident that it is not to be end ed by party warfare. The party that put it there has the power, and you cannot remove it by fighting that party, especially under the pe culiar circumstances of the case. The North will sustain their own work. They consider the present status as a great moral victory. They regard it as the “legitimate fruit,"’ of a long and terrible war that cost them billions of treasure and a half million of lives, and therefore they will not give it up, or even reason coolly and sensibly about it, in the present humor of the public mind. As long as you will fight it with party, its existence will be perpetuated. Be ing opposed to reason and right and sound po licy, it must eventually come to naught; but it is one of those evils that is to be cured not by party, but by the country—the second, sober thought of good men of all parties must do the work. As God liveth, the truth will finally pre vail, and in this case the end is to be readied on the principle announced by General Grant in his inaugural address, the surest way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it strictly. Great evils have a curative power within themselves. Now we can comprehend these suggestions in their practical application to the fatuity of making issues in Georgia or other Southern States with the Radical majority in Congress on the practi cal application of the Reconstruction Acts; for every man of sense can see, if he will, that they are all bound to end like the fight of the bull with the locomotive. Common sense, therefore, tells us to stand aside and let the thing have its course, and wait for better days and better measures. But when it comes to making up a national verdict upon the constitutionality and policy and Utility of these atrocious usurpations, are we not, as part of the jury of American freemen (so called) to put in our verdict of condemnation against them on every occasion ? Are we not to fight this party every time and all the time and resort to the principle of combination to put it down and destroy its power for oppression and mischief? And how is “the country/' to do this work except by all those means and appli ances by which public opinion is concentrated and directed to the accomplishment of specifio ends?. All the “sober second thought of man kind'’ cannot help matters unless it can be in duced to vote and act unitedly—and this must be done by conventions, nominations, parties, platforms, speeches and electioneering gener ally. To fight the Radicals without a firmly organized party in opposition would result worse than a conflict between drilled soldiers and a disorderly mob. Thus we fail to see how our friend of the Re publican will bring his new party scheme into practical and beneficent operation for the ends designed. But we have no elections in Georgia this year; and, after all, when the time of gen eral elections rolls round, Georgia will be com pelled to accept things pretty much as she finds them. To our mind it is quite doubtful whether she will be able to discover a better or more promising channel of opposition to radicalism than the old Democratic party. Grand Pie-Ntc at Newnan Springs. We acknowledge a special invitation from Mayor Brewster, of Newnan, to join the people of that beautiful city in a grand pic-nic on Mon day night, the 23d instant. Other engagements will deprive us of the pleasure of seeing New nan—her people and her spring on that interest ing occasion; but we hope to do it before long. In a few months Macon and Newnan will be connected by a very direct and short line of railway, and will then interchange a lively trade and much agreeable companionship and associa tion. Newnan and her springs on the one hand, for a healthful up country resort, and Bruns- wide and her salt water and ocean breezes for a sea-side watering place, will equip us so completely that nothing more need be desired, and. open to Newnan, as well as to ourselves, abundant resources to wile away the summer heat and dulness. We wish our Newnan friends a merry time next Monday evening. From Upper Georgia. A friend who has just returned from a trip on the Memphis and Charleston road West of Chat tanooga is eloquent on dry times. B[e says he saw nothing worthy the name of crops on the lines of railroad from Marietta to Tnscnmbia.— Every thing looked burnt up. The Tennessee river was very low—at the shallowest parts with only eight inches of water. Navigation was stop ped much to the hindrance of parties who were waiting supplies of iron and merchandise. The Chinamen ik Peru.—The Chinamen in Peru, said to number abont thirty thousand, have forwarded a memorial, representing their grievances, to the Celestial government. They say their contracts are as waste paper, and that hunger, cold, blows, vituperation and bad food are driving them to self-destruction-; and though < there are a few kind masters, yet they are as one or two in ten. Wherefore they pray the pow erful protection of the home government, that it may be to them like the dewy showers on dying plants. ■ Spiteful Sunshine.—The sun in August seems spiteful—vindictive—venomous—bent on doing you an injury. Let it touch so much as the toe of your boot, and you are glad to find a shady place for your foot A man can stand it who has worked in the open air from early spring, but bring out your shade plants, and they wilt directly. Very hot wdB the sun yes terday. Chops in Bartow.—The Cartersvilie Express says: The drought has been very severe in por tions of this county. The com crop in those very dry belts is well nigh cut off; in other por tions of the county there has been slight, but occasional showers of rain—the crops are much better, but in some parts they have not suffered scarcely a day for rain, and better crops were never known. Cotton in the seed Bought.—The Eagle and Phenix Factory of Columbus advertise that they will buy cotton in the seed, or gin the cotton for toll and buy the lint at market value. To farm ers having no gins this will be a great conven ience. And we do not see why most of the Southern Factories will not find their account in following suit. Rain in Atlantj—WVseo that Atlanta had a rain on Tuesday, as well as Macon. Hon. B. H. Hill was well enough to leave Atlanta for Athens on Tuesday last. The Weather, Chops, etc.—For the last week the weather has been oppressive; the thermom eter ranging from 90 to 95 in the shade—more dr less rain has fallen every day. The prospect of the cotton crop is not as promising as it was a week ago. The caterpillar has appeared in i. number of fields—they appear to be in greater Tbe Cotton Supply Question and IVlint Will Come of it. The'reader will find some where in this edition of the Telegraph one of the most condensed and interesting articles npon the question of the cotton supply which we have ever seen. It discloses a grand cotton deficit of a million bales, in the face of demands for an increasing consumption, and a succinct statement of. the product and capacity of other cotton producing regions, which carries conviction that the for eign supplies must diminish rather than in crease. The cotton supply question is now, in fact, the grand theme of tire industrial and business world. There never was, at any time within onr recollection, a degree of attention directed to the Sonthem States nearly approaching that which now exists. The interest in the cotton situation was intense last year, bnt the increas ing deficiency has so greatly sharpened "it that there is no comparison. Every year’s experience settles conviction that the Southern Cotton Belt alone, of all the earth’s surface, unites the physical conditions necessary to prodace tho best varieties of cotton; and, as the growing wealth of the world and its increas ing diffusion among the masses is very rapidly developing an increased demand for clothing, the importance and valne of this section of Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs. { PREPARED FOR THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. Great Britain.—The English Parliament dis cussed only questions of national interest during the past week. In reply to an interpellation of Mr. Palmer, the Home Secretary told the Com mons that for the moment the pressure of pub lic business prevented the introduction of a uniform marriage law for the whole Kingdom; the question, however, would be considered on the basis of liberal and non-confessional princi ples at the earliest opportunity. Mr. Moore, member of Parliament for Tip perary, inquired after the conduct of the gov ernment toward the Fenian prisoners. Mr. Bruce, the Home Secretary, replied that O'Don ovan and Rossa had to suffer the punishment required by the severe discipline and their bad behavior, meanwhile assuring the honora ble member that their treatment was not severer than necessary. Maguire, representative for Cork, exhorted the government to deal leniently with the Fenians.- Finally, Parliament was pro rogued by a Royal Commissioner on the 11th of August. The prospectus of the "West Indian and Pa nama Telegraph Company, proposing to con nect Sonth America with Europe and the United States, by a cable from Cuba to Central Amer ica, has just been published. The tariff for telegrams through the Atlantic Cable has been considerably reduced. Thirty shillings sterling or seven dollars and a half in gold are charged for ten words, and three shil lings or seventy-five cents in gold for each ad ditional word. Telegrams for tho press cost only half these rates. These arrangements country must correspondingly increase, and so , took effect on the 10th of August, must the demand upon it for occupation, settle-1 A complete government will probably bo ment and culture. I *£• Hudson Bay Territory. The tx * * xv. x xv- x • ! English Cabinet has refosed to confirm Mr. It is folly, then, to suppose that immigration | Ja £ es Haggerty as Consul of.the United States to the South is, in fact, a question within the : In Glasgow, on the ground of his former con- power of her people to control or restrain to any! nections with the Fenians, great extent We can make no combination The Evening Telegraph, in a fading article, 6 , , while acknowledging the faithfnl conduct of the among ourselves which will affect it very mate- American Government toward Fenianism, de- rially one way or the other; and the trne course fends the action oft fhe Cabinet, alleging that for tho owners of the soil is to shape their policy PresidentGrant, not haying known the ontece- so as to secure its benefits while they make up their minds to endure what they may apprehend as its evils. As there is really no limit to the prospective demand for cotton, so there is no limit to the prospective value of good cotton lauds, which would now be considered within the bounds of reason. When one begins to speculate tbe most reasonably on existing data, bis vaticinations become to most people tbe more wild and vi sionary. If you take the bases which govern the value of agricultural lands in the North or West and argue upon them, what ought to be a correspond ing valuation of Southern lands, yon will only be derided; and yet it is certain similar rules must eventually prevail; and we approximate that result with a rapidity proportioned to the profits of cotton culture. It is folly to suppose that a greedy world is going to look on idly and see insufficient cotton crop3 produced and sold at thirty cents a pound when the area for pro duction is ample and all the circumstances invite them to hike a share in the business. Hence, we repeat, let ns look for immigration —let us anticipate increased demand for land and labor and let ns reconcile our views and in terests to a largely increased product—for it must come. The necessities of the world de mand it^and we shall have increased consump tion to counterbalance increased production, till perhaps in ten years from this time the Cotton crop of the Sonth will far surpass its old volume, and be the grandest annual trophy of agricul ture that the human mind ever conceived. In fnlfilling this magnificent destiny we "have, for ourselves, not the slightest apprehension that the Southern States will fail to make cor responding advances in every other department. We torment onrselves with no phantoms of ac cumulating ignorance, depravity, vice, irreli- gion and lawlessness. On the contrary, as our wealth will accu mulate in the most natural, scriptural and healthy manner, it will be tbe most healthful in its effect npon the character of the people and the condition of society, and it will be employed in tho most rational way. It will be used in de veloping every substantial interest of tbe coun try ; and as we shall probably hold the most valuable soil in America, so we think it will contain the most valuable people—enterpris ing, hardy, intelligent, refined, moral and relig- ms. The prospects we forecast are altogether of a pleasing character^ and the young of this gener ation will, we hope, by the mercy of God, live to see the cotton belt of the Sonth “ a goodly land and pleasant to dwell in” — tho abode of a wealthy and virtuous and numerous people— surrounded by all the achievements, arts and appliances of the most advanced civilization. So mote it be. _ General Lee. Nothing can be more admirable than the bearing of this majestic man since the capitu lation at Appomatox. The sedulous care with which he has maintained the position of a pri vate citizen, and the success with which he has avoided every demonstration of his unrivaled popularity with the Southern people, and every entanglement with politics, evince alike his wisdom and his patriotism. Two or three in stances have occurred in which he has drawn upon himself, however undeservedly, the male dictions of the Radicals. One of these was the conference at the Virginia Springs last sum mer, and another the popular outburst which attended his visit to Baltimore as delegate from a Virginia Railway Company. These only show how easy it would havo been for General Lee to have injured himself and the Sonth by any other course than one of the most cautions and sagacious reticence and retirement. In the matter indicated by the telegrams to day, we observe the same extreme caution. He does not visit tho battle field of Gettysburg at thp request of the officers representing the Fede ral forces engaged in that battle, without first stating the reasons which have induced him to comply with the invitation and showing that it is dictated by the same motives which have characterized his action since the war. From Crawford County. Knoxville, August 17, 18G9. Editors Telegraph: Onr prospects have dimmed very much within a short time, and from the top of the mountain wo have descend ed very rapidly into the Slough of Despond.- Drought and rust—drought and rust are all the cry. Up to the 21st or 22d of July, we had timely seasons and all was well. But since that time a long season of rainless weather has dis tressed all crops—cutting off the com—precipi tating the opening of the cotton and preventing the growth and development of new bolls. Cot ton looks sicks and so do we. With this drought comes the rust to complete oar misery, so that yon may set it down as a fact that the people of Crawford have been reducing their income es timates next year very rapidly, and we are now making fifty cents stand for a dollar. Well it is the fate of mankind. Disappointment is the lot of all mortals and no doubt it is good for ns, al though we don’t see it. “God’s will be done,” and JS'il desperandum must be out mottoes. If you Lave got anything good for us, to cheer us up, let us have iti [Yes ! offset rust by rise in quotations and go ahead. Editors Telegraph]. Saratoga on Politic3. ; —A gossipping Sarato ga correspondent of the Charleston Conner says: - - , - —° — There is very little said here about politics: ^ plantations, some the feeiing seems to have died out since hit of which will be almost stripped in the course of summer . No one cai ten days. The rust has also made its appearance on some few places, doing quite as much damage as the caterpillar. We are in hopes that the crops are so far adv&noed that no serious damage can be donethem. t The gqi tnPi UMi greater portiap of which is cares to talk abont them. I rather think that the North is about as sick and tired of politics and politicians as we are. Grant is looked npon as a failure, not having by any means come up to the Yankee standard of ex cellence. People talk of him as the great horse man, and think it very strange that he did not the Saratoga races. He is spoken ,. he may safely oonnt on twano dents of Haggerty, would recognize the justice of tins refusal. Mr. Motley, the American Am bassador, has therefore appointed Mr. Eastman, of Queenstown, os interimistic American Con sul in Glasgow. Mr. Gladstone is again unwell; his stato causes uneasiness to his friends. The Chamber of Commerce of Liverpool will shortly address a circular to tho Chambers of Commerce in the United States, pointing out tbe ill usage of employing a great deal of un necessary bagging and iron for packing tho cot ton bales, and proposing to adopt for the Amer ican ports the same system of tare as in the English seaports. France.—The political excitement has abated. Marshal Niel, Minister of War and an earnest believer in the doctrine that tbe whole left bank of the Rhine by divine right belongs to France, is dead, after having suffered for some time from an incurable disease. Having made tbe true saying, “Divide et impera,” a part of bis political programme, he has ever been hos tile to the growing consolidation of Germany, which loses a bitter enemy by his death. An Imperial decree daring the illness of tho Mar shal had alread appointed Admiral Rigault de Genonilly as Minister of War. Germany.—The prospects for the new grain crop are favorable. King William, whom so many sensational cor respondents delight in representing as at the end of his earthly career, is sojourning at the watering place of Ems, where his health is fast improving. Austria.—Count Von Benst, who probably wishes to immortalize his name by the exploits of his pen, seizes every opportunity of assuring tho world that Austria entertains tho most cor dial relations with France, while Prussia does not respond to her spiritof reconciliation. Bis marck knows well how to take the peaceful pro testations of the donble-faced statesmen, who, by intrigues and machinations is plotting against German unity. However intolerable the enor mous standing army in North Germany may be, there is no possibility of any adequate reduction as long as Austria will still flatter herself with chimerical hopes of regaining her lost position in Germany, and while the ruler on the Seine by sudden events maybe compelled to assemble his faithful myrmidons around him. LetFrance beware of Austrian gratitude! ■ The public press is still filled with indignant protestations in regard to the nnn Barbara Ubryk, who, after twenty-one years’ imprison ment, was liberated in consequence of a* anony mous letter addressed to a court of justice in Cracow. The most vigorous investigations have been instituted. The unhappy being, is a com plete state of nudity, was confined in a narrow cell with a double door, and a window nearly built np. The whole furniture consisted of a little putrid straw. The victim of eccleiiastical jurisdiction alleges her having broken tho vow of chastity as the cause of her imprisqnment. The people vented their rage in breaking the window panes of the convent, which eoild only be saved from utter destruction by the arrival of a military force. Italy.—It is rumored that the Cabinet Mena- brea will soon give room to a Ministry more liberal in every respect. The Italian Government is discussing the question of prohibiting all bishops of the King, dom of Italy from taking any part in the Oecu menical Council. The Conte Gabriel Mastai-Ferretti, a brother of Fio Nono, died at the advanced age of 90 years. j . The preparations for the Council continue. A great many prelates are arriving from the New World. The Papal army is suffering from desertions. No soldier, the Zouaves, the troops d’elite not excepted, are any more allowed to walk beyond the gateB of the Eternal City. Spain.—It is hardly possible to gather any satisfactory information from the chaos of con flicting news coming from Spain, It seems as if the Carlist movement has lost its terror, though single Guerilla bands are still infesting the country. The Government, which was in stituted by the national will, develops a laudable energy in making preparations for any emer gency. Many arrests were made in Madrid. Balanzetegua, a Carlist chief, was captured and shot. Several Carlist bands led by priests were defeated and dispersed. The Cortes will reassemble in October to pro ceed to the election of a King. Admiral Topete is said to favor the Duke of Montpensier, who, amongst all candidates, is certainly the most ac ceptable. It is hardly worth while to mention the idlo newspaper rumor, that Prince Napoleon, supported by the influence of Prim is spoken of as another candidate for the Spanish crown. Spain will never descend so low as to be a mere dependency of France, and history teaches ns, that even Napoleon I, who had seated his brother Joseph on the Spanish throne, could not succeed in retaining his sway over the Iberian Peninsula. It is positively denied that Spain wishes to sell Cuba, at least, now. However incredible the American papers may find this “obstinate refusal to sell what is worth nothing,” it can be very easily explained. Castilian pride shrinks from giving np Cuba, whioh according to the general opinion, is lost to tbe mother country. However, should Spain re-establish her shaken power over the Island, she will very likely pro pose a sale from her own froe will'; but tho present Government does not wish to bo, after centuries still reproachfully pointed at by the genius of Spain for having lost the pearl of the Antilles. Portugal.—A Frenoh company has offered to lay a submarine cable from Lisbon and Gi braltar to England and America against a privil ege of twenty years /without asking, however, for any subvention on the part of Portugal Russia.—Not long ago the English Govern ment had proposed to Russia that both coun tries should declare Porsia and Afghanistan neutral ground, and pledge themselves to resign any farther conquests in Central Asia. The Cabinet of St Petersburg declined at that time to enter into any obligations; bnt since new difficulties are rising in Tnrceetan while, on the other hand, the insurrection of the Kirgliisens assumes greater proportions, the Muscovite seems more willing to listen to the proposals of England, and the official press in Russia sings now long hymms in honor of the British Em pire in India, which has done so mach to pro mote the civilization of the human kind. A new regulation, the wont of which was felt a long time, was at last introduced at tho St. Petersburg Exchange ; the quotations will, honcefortta, be fixed and published by the brok ers every day, Saturday and Sunday excepted, instead of only two Dr three times a week. Turkey and Egypt.—The Great Powers havo advised the Viceroy to disclaim all intentions of making himself independent from his Suzerain. Professor Brugsch, of Goettingen, Germany, has accepted an invitation of Ismail Pasha to found a University at Cairo. Jabno. The Cotton Supply. • From the United Stater Economies.] . • The English Cotton Supply Association have bad under discussion the question of procuring a sufficient quantity of that staple to meet the demands of British manufacturers, and, in their report, declare that there appears to be little probability that the production of cotton in America will, for many years to come, be ade quate to the requirements Of this and other countries. For the present they urge the adop tion of measures to increase the supply of .cot ton in India ; bnt, at the same time, announce that 4l to tho Southern States of America must we look for any permanent increase in the sup ply of the raw material.” Some of the difficult ies attending the growth of cotton in other lands are thus stated in the report: Out of 1(5,000,000 acres annually appropriated to cotton growing in India, the largest yield for exportation was in 18C6, (when stimulated by high prices;) and did reach 1,840,618 bales—de creasing in 1867 to-1,508,903 bales, and in 18G8 to 1,420,576 bales—averaging three hundred and fort-seven pounds. In the District of Ovis- sa, and in Eastern Bengal, when the largo crop of 1866 was made, over 1,850,000 souls perished from starvation, produced from putting in cot ton lands which should have been appropriated to breadstuff's. _* * . * * In Egypt, a more strict system of irrigation is adhered to, and heavy expenditures for canal dues, steam machinery and English coal for fuel to raise water from tlyi Nile, With the high price qCcotton lands, joined to onerous taxes exactitfbar the Government, will discourage to a greSt degree any further increase in cotton supply; besides, in 1SG5, when a large attempt at cotton growing was made, some 350,000of tho population of Egypt perished from actual starva tion. * * * * Smyrna cut down her fig and fruit trees in 1864 for the purpose of growing cotton, but has now abandoned it, while tho rest of the Levant, except for domestic purposes, has given it up altogether. * * * Brazil and Peru are dependent almost entirely npon irrigation for the production of their cotton crops. The Pernambuco, Baccio, Bahia and Santos cottons, so favorably known in the Eu ropean markets, are produced by damming up the “rigollettas," or rivulets of melted snow that come from the Cordilleras, and thus, dur ing the summer months, furnishing means of irrigation, so necessary in th'kt arid climate to the maturity of the cotton plant. But for tho terraces and irrigating canals of Peru, which convey tho melted snows from the Andes, she conld not grow cotton at all—and oven now her crop is very small, for that imported into Liv erpool the past year amounted to only 58,911 bags, of 180 pounds—equivalent to i little over 21,000 bales of 500 pounds each. While that of Brazil, although it amounts to 627,502 bales of 155 pounds each, when reduced to 500 pound bales, amounts to a little over 195,000 bales. Some years ago, seed, tools, and experienced planters and workers in cotton wore sent from this country to India to test that section in the cotton-prodncing line. The experiment was a failure. Neither the quantity nor quality was such as to justify the outlay of money to contin ue the enterprise. Since that time other efforts havo been made in India and Egypt, but with similar want of success. The climate in those localities is not fitted for producing a sure and steady yield of cotton, while rude and insuffi cient means of transportation from tho interior to the seaports are also hindrances of no mean magnitude to the undertaking of rivaling the United States as a cotton-producing country.— Besides, the quality of the cotton grown in the Southern States makes it eminently desirable in tbe markets of the world. American cotton is used alone for warp, and, on an average, nine bales of this to one of all other descriptions in mills and manufactories. When to these facts is added another important one, that the con sumption of cotton increases faster than its pro duction, we see at once that the Southern States are the main dependence of the world for a sup ply of this article. Here is an estimate of the total supply: Granting that the East India and the United States may make full average crops of cotton, the most favorable production cannot supply the deficiency, say for the crop of the cotton year 1869: Bales. East India, more than last year 1,500 000 Egypt 230,000 Turkey, Levant, etc 12,500 Brazil, Peru and West Indies, same as last year 707,500 United States resources more than last year 2,500,000 All other sources 50,000 Making a liberal estimate of 5,000.000 for tho production of the world, while the con sumption is over 6,000,000, leaving the apparent deficit in supply in the “raw material” over 1,000,000 bales of cotton at the end of the pres ent year. r How to increase the cotton yield of the South is a highly important question, not only for that section, bnt for tho whole country. With n full yield of cotton at fair prices wo can control the' trade of tho world in this respect, and hence the whole energies of the nation should be di rected to building np the cotton interests of the belt of States producing this important article of trade and commerce. From Patnaiu County—Fine Reports. Putnam County, Ga., August 18, 1869. Editors Telegraph: We are having some hot and dry weather jnst at this time which is pleas ing to farmers. They are saving their fodder without being molested by rain, and they say their com crops were never better to tho num ber of acres planted. Cotton is also very good, no rust in it yet, neither do we hear of the cat erpillar as yet. The cotton crop in Putnam is hard to beat. I saw on the farm of Judge W. A. Corley, near Eatonton, a few days ago, a patch of the finest cotton I ever saw. ■ While walking through it I concluded to count tho fruit of some stalkB.' On one I counted 388 bolls and forms and on anoth er 411. His cotton is 4 feet in the row and from 2 to 3 feet in the drill. He is now greatly in favor of guanoes and expects to use them large ly on what he cultivates the ensuing year. 1 Subscriber. Commercial Valne of Hie Sonth. Under this head tho New York Herald of the 15th, enters the following vigorous protest in behalf of the South: ■ Well might tho North bnckle on all its armor to keep the South'in the Union, for, apart from political considerations and the. patriotic senti ment 6f maintaining the grandeur and glory of the repnblic intact, that part of our common country is the source of our commercial wealth and more valuable to tho North than everTndia was to England. According to the latest statistics, the value of Southern exports last year was over two hun dred and fourteen millions, while that of the North was a little less than two hundred mil lions. There is this great difference, too, in the nature of the exports of the two sec tions, that a large portion of those of tho North is in the precious metals, which, in a measure, impoverishes the country—while those of the South are the products of tho soil, and bring U3 gold, or its equivalent. Cotton, of course, is the great staple, though tobacco is a 1 valuable , product, and sugar, rice and other things, form a part of tho exports. Tho domestic trade of the South is still more valu able to the North, for it supplies our manufac turers with tho raw material they need, and takes back Northern manufactures in return. These great and valuable exports nnd this vast trade, too, have been developed again so soon after the Southhad been desolated by war. This not only shows the surprising wealth of the soil, but'the astonishing energy of Character and re cuperative power of the people. Yet it is this rich and beautiful country and theso citizens which are kept under the heel of military des potism and made the football of scheming poli ticians yorfrs after the close , of tbe war. .But this state of things must soon come to an end, and the South will rise from its ashes to be the richest country in the world. From Taylor County. Reynolds, August 19, ISG9. Editors Telegraph: We shall have but little to show in this county when crops 'are gathered. All is made that will be made this. year. The rnst and drowth have rained cotton. It is now opening very fast, and no more will be made. •*>. T. ;.*? “ John 1 John 1” shouted an old gentiman to his sou, “set tip,.the sun is np before you.’’ “Vary well,” Mid John. “ be has further to go ***** A Chinese place of worship is shortly to be erected in the city of New York, hear Trinity Church. A wealthy Chinese merchant, of San Francisco, has furnished the fnnds with the hope of converting the New Yorkers to the doc trines of Confucius.-', There are some ten thou sand Chinese in New York, and this,is. an’addi- ' tional motive for the erection of a temple' to “Josh.” . ' • The Growth of the West. The New York Times of Monday, has a leading article upon the wealth of.the country and its flattering individual prospects, from which we take the following remarkable statistics showing the growth in population of the Western States in the Iasi four years: Within the past four years the population ,of the nine Northwestern States, from which we draw our supplies of food, has increased at the rate of 500,000 annually. To show the rate of the. increase from 1864 to 1868, we have pre pared a tabular statement of the number of votes cast in each State at the Presidential elections in these years, and have estimated the population to be five-fold greater than such vote. One to five may be regarded as the average ratio of votes to population in the agricultural States in general and exoited ejections. * * * The inoreased vote, in tho period of four years, was 438,590; the increase of population 2,292,950. In 1868 there were nearly half a million of able-bodied men at work in these States more than in 1864. Their productive thousand dollars per week capacity, from the increased facilities for trans- Tfce G?eat Comet Editors TdegrajA^ Akho b<Xa time, have diseov$4 a “fieroe ^ inendons >hze’’'*pp*|* e hiiigthe « ■Ini velocity * £ *>ij| From Washington. • ■Washington, August 19.—The steamer Telegrefa, an alleged pirate, which the Semieoio was sent af ter, has been Bold on account of hex crew; bnt af- ' the globe on which'we dwell/ Tv" terwards was condemned as a-prize by the British * ment has produced, in the vul * authorities at Tortola. j ing of insecuritv and terror nnT* * Revenue to-day $495,000. . attention of scientific circCL ^ Wiard, the ordnance contractor, sues before the 69 mor « -Court of Claims for one million two hundred tbon- ; ;7 “ tl 8Cen6I 7 of the portation, in more skillfully directed labor, and in the more extensive use of labor-saving im plements, has probably inoreased in two-fold ratio to that of their numbers. There are still more striking illustrations of the rapid progress of the new States in material prosperity and wealth. There were opened within those.npmed, within the past four years, 5,000 miles qMBtonijtia These roads transport annually I'.OOOjons of freight to each mile of line, or JO,000500 tons in the aggregate. The thio»tenjtage consists of the pro ducts of tbe soil—food—and is a most satisfac tory evidence of the vastly augmented supply. The increase of tonnage of the roads in opera tion in these States previous to 1864 will equal the total of tho new lines. The aggregate in crease of all since 1S64 cannot be less than 15,- 000,000 tons, having an aggregate value of $2,000,000. Itis usually estimated that a farmer living with in fifteen miles of a line of railroad can avail him self of it in sending his crops to market. Every 1,000 miles of line constructed, consequently opens up 30,000 square miles of new territory— an area equal to a good sized State. But dur ing the present year fully 5000 miles of new line will be constructed, opening np 150,000 square miles, the greater portion of which was last year wholly beyond the reach of commerce and of markets* The addition to the wealth of the country which i3 dne to such an increase of the means of transportation can hardly be esti mated. In the meantime, the increase of our population, which follows fast in the train of the new works, is at the rate of 1,250,000, all of whom become efficient co-operators in a common cause. Such an increase of population and wealth se cures to ns advantages possessed by no other nation. If trade or manufactures be overdone or. slack, tho passage of a single year brings 1,250,000, additional consumers. With a slight pause in our industries consumption overtakes production. Each day 4000 additional persons share in the burdens of taxation. What is toler able to-day becomes less onerous to-morrow, and with the certainty of their steady reduction and of a full release from them at no distant day. The Fall Trade In Dry Goods. From the Keto York Eceninj Post, August 14(A.] The general complaint of onr merchants is that tho fall trade is late this year. The same thing, however, has been said at this time for the last five years, and it is owing to the natural change the whole country has undergone and is daily undergoing. Railroads are annihilating distances, the telegraph annihilates time and the remote Western or Southern merchant no long er must hurry to the sea coast in June to Iky in his fall and winter stock. A great change has million two hundred tbon- 1 T~ . .. * "‘■'’““J ul tue hearea« sand dollars, for non-fulfilled contracts. 1 . Christian pulpit is suggesting that CuBtomB from the 7th to tho 14th, inclusive, were ■ Phenomenon may be one of the a trifle over four millions. : signs of the second coining of th fc u,, ^ The Treasury Department has advices of exten- ! and are accordingly appealing tok ^ sive black mailing operations by bogus deputy Mar- ! ful motive for immediate p re pa run!!, 1 ehals and revenue detectives. ! the awfn i events of the last da* ^ * A committee of New York Stock Exchange; The ancients regarded the anL brokers has applied, ineffectually, to Delano to re- i 6t „ th gu-e harbin«.«. open his decision classing them as bankers. It is 1 . .. - gers of great petL estimated that this new tax will aggregate one hun- | Ule9 > snc “ osrthqoaked, famine, ,-ed thousand dollars per week. war ’ inundations and the deaths of di^ Eleven millions of 10-40‘s havo been substituted ! men ! hence they were impelled by th e for other national bank securities since the order ; superstitious awe to employ means to was issued permitting such substitution. | the wrath and conciliate the favor of ■* It is reported that two hundred and fifty men de- | ing deities. We are told that the ^ parted southward recently, ett route to Cuba. of Julius Cressr, in the fortv-fnn — m , . ; j Christ, was foretold by one* oft? -Veit From Cuba. j visitors. Aristotle, the greatest? ^ Washington, Augnst 19.—Further advices from : tiquity, credited these crude stme * Cuba, to the 9th, state that in the engagement near j the transcendent power of his Remedios the Cubans defeated a Spanish force pro- , some of the master spirits of the m-li/] ceeding to Neuvitas to reinforce Lesca. , COD J s ^. time, however, 1 Th6 i! r ; e0f | J °; dla aUa ? ed ’ nearTrinkUd ’ and - tiie P dIlnrioS°aRtreloCT2?^ ** succeeded m defeating, the Spaniards. One hun- the world the true theorv of .v elo i dred anfrfifty Spaniards deserted at Trjhidadftomed bodies. These eminent scientists r ^ the Cubans, and took part in tho fighfcL /w* 1 of briilant investigations, aniiel tU i A Cuban convoy was captured nSTr SagMa la ; established conclusions that the ecu/t-^ l Grande, and another small party near Puerto Prin stituent parts of the solar system cipe. The latter were immediately executed. • immutable laws, ^ Havana,-August 19.—Three hundred rebels from \ W /'. ch ^ Cienfuegos were attacked near Jaguay Grande and ; not only ft Vew m dispersed. Ten were killed. A detachment guard- \ astronomical science, but esnetni * ing a provision train along the South coast was cometary department of it. From th- attacked and repulsed with some loss; but being j fears of men.oeased concerning the f^ reinforced, attacked the. insurgents and succeeded J sequences from this class of celestial t,--' in reaching Ciego Villas with the convov. \ a , m *. ^e.Y began the study of tbe chi- :— : j their substance, the magnitude of thei* - General News. i tions, the measure of their distances. ti t f PnmmiA, August 19.-A recent mtprriaW j • with Gen. Deo regarding the proposed meeting of ! 0 f their appearances. Generals of both armies at Gettysburg next week, i Hundreds of comets have been viaY, J for the identification of the battle field, leads to the i naked eye in the past ages of the /r - i belief that Gen. Lee will eventually attend. Not many more have been brought witL 1 that he wholly approves of the measure, bn t regard- ! telescopic vision. A few of these hr J ing tho meeting as a foregone conclusion, he thinks °* Prodigious size and splendor and«o his presence due to the men he commanded, as j co ^ 181 ® ff,? 8 e JP a ,0 ? ® maD S Us L- “ F ° 7 ,. : ants of the earth. One of tbe lamest t/1 the meeting will be histone, and because he desires : m0( Jem times appeared in the vat to avoid tbe misconstruction which would be placed , excited intense interest among upon his refusal, by the enemies of Reconstruction. ; tronomers of Europe. Sir Isaac Ssr.» Mrs. Anthony was finally excluded as a delegate jected it to a close examination, and s' from the Labor Convention by a vote of sixty- : t } le opinion that its velocity was ten i_ three to twenty-eight. | thousand miles an hour; that ite lari;^ San Francisco, August 19.-Mr. Colfax, Senator Stewart and others, have appealed to Bontwcll to • - pprtjfccM* (nitai allow drafts on the Sub-Treasury at New York to relievo the money stringency here. The appeal was unanswered. span almost the entire firmament great comet appeared in 1611, was via! naked eye for the space of three created a sensation wide as tbe wodd It has transpired that BoutweU permitted a firm j lustrious stranger was witnessed fat hero to draw funds from tho San Francisco Sub- ! winter by the splendid eye of Hend Treasury, thus taking advantage of the public ne- ! c(lre ^ observations we lew a.— * u» press, and creates indignation in the entire com- j teen m iUionsof miles. This celebnid munity. ! omer concluded that the “ solid mi’ia Four ships cleared yesterday for Liverpool with ; comet was'Spherical; that it shone p>i 132,000 sacks of wheat. ' i own native light; and that it pro! Helena, Hostana, August 19.—The Black Feet tation round its axis.” The comet Indians are running off stock. They killed Mai- with such surpassing splendor comb Cook, and badly wounded his son, twenty li nc tly observable in the day time hi a sweeping comet came so near tbe is believed part of its blazing talk bnt as yet no serious consequences to ere merchant whether the planters had a good, i srr , rhin. i bave teen discovered, had or indifferent crop, so far as laying in goods ;, ^ Fbancisoo, Aupat 19. The steamer China , Little is yet known in regard to & was concerned. His stock must he bought, and | i’ a9 arrived. She brings Boss Browne and one substance of the comets. Somefc&veL if the planter had no cotton, he had credit, with | thousand passengers, including eight hundred and • the matter of them is so exceedingly:, either the merchants or his own commission ! fifty Chinese. : that stars of the 10th magnitude i:e| agent, while the Southern merchant also had _ , ’ ” t through these bodies, whilst other lcc credit here and used it. j renttletOll Accepts. j writers have attributed to them greater^ , All this has since changed. Credit isno long- I Cincinnati, August 19.—Pendleton accepts the | especially to their nuclei. Prof. " er the sole life of the Southern trade, and it is I nomination for Governor of Ohio in a long letter, j views are condensed in the following j; come over the business customs of the Southern ‘ miles from here. They threaten a raid on Gallatin merchant since the war. Ten or twelve years . Yallev. There is much excitement among the ago it made hardly any difference to the South- • se (qJ rg- therefore natural that the merchant should re- j quire an assnred prospect of sales, such: as he can only find in good crops, before ho makes largo purchases. Western merchants are also, in the same way, more anxious of late to out the garment according to the cloth; hence the fall trade is necessarily retarded until more is known of the prospect of the crops. Thus far onr information goes to show that the Southern States will, as a whole, be prosper ous," not only in raising a good crop, but in get ting very fully prices for their produce. The Western farmers now have eveiy reason to ex pect a bountiful harvest and fair prioes, particu larly if they are not misled, as they wore last year, into hoarding produce for a higher market. Stocks of dry goods and clothing in all the in terior markets are reported as very light indeed, and it may, therefore, be anticipated that a Damon and Ptthias in Colors.—The Chroni cle and Sentinel reports the case in that city of Daniel Turner, colored, sentenced to two months hard labor on the Macon and Augusta Railroad for petit larceucy. After the sentence the prisoner’s brother aocosted the court as fol lows: . Negro—“Judge, ain’t there no way you can fix it so that I can go on the chain-gang in place of Dan?” The Justice—“Is the prisoner a relation of yours ?” Negro—“I’m his brother, an I want for to. work out his time, cause he’s older dan me, an have a wife and his wife is sick. I ain’t mar- ried, an 1 am willin to go on the gang in his heavy demand for these goods will very soon be t place, an let him stay wid his wife.” felt in onr Atlantic ports and Eastern States.—j 'Pho Justice—“But I cannot allow an inno- The great drawback to^ a so-called late fall trade cent man to - suffer for a guilty one. You can’t is in the anxiety of importers and manufactu rers to sell their goods; and prices may, there fore, in general be rather moderate, but the sales will be, it is believed, more than usually heavy. The stock of imported dry goods is not so large as has been supposed Dom the import returns. It is a healthy Mature in onr trade that this stock is in strong hands, and that there is less ■ desire to make sacrifices at- auction for money than for somo years past. Whether this feature in the trade is permanent remains, of course, to be seen. • ' There is always less reason to apprehend forced sales at auction of domestio than of im ported dry goods. The domestic trade, in this line, is controlled by wealthy men, and is less affected by 'speculative influences than the foreign trade. Except in woollen goods, the prospects ore good, stocks being moderate and prices fairly maintained. A month, however, most elapse before final and trustworthy con clusions can be drawn as to the mercantile pros perity of tho city during the autumn months. Every improvement in transportation brings this distributing market nearer to' consumers; and the time is, perhaps, not far distant when the general practice of merchants in the'cities of this country will bo, not to buy a winter Btock at one time, bnt to order from New York from time to timo that which is needed for the imme diate supply of customers. It will be seen that this practice, already universal in such countries as England, is rapidly growing here, and it is to this, rathof than to any threatened diminution of tho demand for goods, that the late, opening of the “fall trade,” so muoh complained of, must bo attributed.. Cotton Crop ip Webster and Marlon. We have just returned, says the Americus Courier of the 18th, from a trip through a por tion of Webster and Marion. On the red lands wo found less rust in . the cotton than on the sandy lands. Where the lands have a good clay foundation, very littlo rust is to be se en. And where the rnst was found on this kind of land, it was invariably on lands npon .which guano' had been placed. Almost every field of sandy laud had rust on tho cotton, whether the guano had or had not been used. Cotton generally is not making. Very few blooms could be seen even in large fields.. The ground is also well sprinkled with forms which have fallen off. Very little fruit-on the cotton of many fields, and where the rust has taken good hold, the cotton has ceased to bear. ‘The orop is necessarily largely chtoff, Hot more than two-thirds of a crop on an average can be made. This is our conclusion from observations in Sumter, Houston, Crawford, Webster, Marion, and Lee. The com crop, on an average, is only medium. On some farms the com is excellent, on others it is poor. Tho Bection of country over which we have passed will not moke more com than will be needed to support the plantations. The surplus one farmer has will be needed to supply another's deficiency. While Thad. Stevens was a young lawyer, he once had a case before a bad-tempered Judge of an obscure Pennsylvania Court. Under what he considered a very erroneous ruling, it was decided against him; whereupon he threw down his books and picked up his hat in a high state of indignation, and was about to leave the court room; .scattering imprecations all around him. The Judge straightened himself to his fall bight, assumed on air of offended majesty, and asked Thad. if he meant to “express his contempt for this Court.” Thai turned to him very de- ferently, made a respectful bow, and replied, in feigned amazement: 4 ‘Express my contempt for this Court! No, sir! lam trying to conceal it, your Honor,” adding, to he turned to leave, “butlfinditd—d hard to do it.” A Baptist Church in Massachusetts lately take your brother’s place unless you swear that he is‘innocent, and that yon stole the dog.” Negro—“I can’t swear to that, Judge, but I am willin to make his crime mine, and suffer in his place, so it don’t make no difference.” The justice finally succeded in making the faithful brother understand that it did make a difference, and, evidently greatly disappointed, he left the court-room; and “Dan” was taken to jail. •' 1 '~ n * ' ■ ' Weather and Crops.—Tho week under review has been bright sunshine, such as is wanted by those who ore saving fodder, and hot enough for any purpose. As the season advances, we hear more and more complaints of the damage done the cotton by the rest, and from information gained from planters of the different sections, we are led to believe that the crop will not exceed the crop of last year. We are also informed by intelligent planters that where guano was used, the rest damaged the cotton more than where was ap plied domestic manure, but all agree that their crops are better than they would have been without the guano. Cannot .this be remedied ? [Bateson Journal, VJth. Shocking Murder.—We learn from citizens of Jackson county, that a lad, some fourteen or fifteen years old, named William Coleman, was shot in a corn-field abont ten miles above this place, and not far from Newton court-ground, one day last week. It seems that he was in his mother’s corn-field, hunting squirrels around the inclosure. The person who shot him, as appears by the. tracks left in the soft earth, was, barefooted at the time, and probably stealing green corn. It was thought that tho lad was shot by the thief to prevent exposure. A freed- men, we understand, was suspected, but we learn no positive proof has been discovered.— AiUa-t Yr'iUcamttii. Singular Freak op Nature.—The Charleston Courier is informed by a correspondent that in the upper part of the State there lives a young ex-Confederate soldier, whose leg was amputated during the war near the thigh. After amputa tion the wound rapidly healed, and he was sent home. About a year after a fleshy protuberance was seen to grow bnt of the flesh, which, in the course of a few months, took the shape of a' foot, and since that time it has been growing finely, until now the man has a perfect new foot and leg growing from his thigh, which, in a year or so, promises to supply the loss of his leg in the first instance. If this be true, it is the most wonderful freak of dame nature that has ever come to our notice. “Though some of the largest comets s other bodies in the solar system in : yet in respect to their mass they are t have produced os yet the slightest effect. They sometimes come veiya ete and their satellites, but are never ii exert the least influence on them.” ll plain from the Professor’s statement | collision should take place between sc onr globe, thatno disastrous effects to !We are not authorized to make the ps sertion that such an event will never c if it should occur we apprehend a k summers would be sufficient to cifi fragments. But is not the probal/lit mote that any such an assault will er j by the law-abiding citizens of the sc.hr 4 'Let us suppose, ” says Arago. “a e J we only know that at its perehelion:: the'sun than we are, and that itsdii~ fourth of that of the earth, the t probabilities shows that of chances, there is only one unfaven exists bnt one which can produce i between the two bodies. As for = Unity, in its most general dimers si favorable chances will be from ta in the same number of two eighty-one millions. Admitting t'aKj ment, that the comets which earth with their nuelei would whole human race, then the danec’- J each individual, resulting from the of an unTenoien comet, would be ea| to the risk he would run if in an only one single ball of a total toj 000,000 balls, and that his ccoi® death would be the inevitable «< the white ball being produced at t** iug.” According to the above calcnhtta v any insurance company in the l pretty safe in providing a policy 1 years on the earth for a smaller ■ takes to insure the life of one of ib^ inhabitants. Have not those I by the near approach of the & I abundant reason to console the®’* 4 _J assurance that the end is not yd - is to be preached as a testimony wars are to cease to the ends of j Jews are to be gathered in with , the Gentiles, and the glory of the *'-1 the world as the waters cover thtatej thinas are to precede the final re***- -i things. It is obviously our <b-,r ploy all onr energies^ and this bright day of universal rl ?“‘’ I peace, instead of indulging mf; p-1 sions in regard to the well e3ta ./' rp J operations of nature and P N ”, instead of being filled with si ^, the sun and moon and start, ve { i ready for the great changes v in our individual history’) events which are one day to the universe. . On the principle of analogy, the comets are inhabited by * -if ual order of beings, whose & ^ adapted to the refined and ' . .. whioh they line and mots. A hypothesis, when these blaz®? , rearing through the immensit. . are simply carrying a composed of the idle of^he « bound for some of the distant tion, for purposes of obsew^J'.^J On this supposition, the J which is now reported toberu i has on board an immeas? j tartans of science, and the p of Cosmos, whose object 4 i ambitions little member, has been catting such - -I family of worlds. Perhaps ^ - ;j study more thoroughly the * ‘ ( The magnifioent territory «_ the history of the greatest r F jj times; the mammoth enteiT- - r .t Railroad; the astonishing tn£ and art in the snooess of tn» ^, fraph; the practical effects ^ The wooden toothpicks, now in extensive use, having superseded more costly articles, are all manufactured at one establishment near Boston, ^ employing thirty operatives of both sexes. The 1 machinery has been patented, and is driven by water-power. The woods used are maple and willow. The aggregate daily stiles at the agency of the mill, in New York, amount to forty or fifty cases, each containing one hundred thou sand toothpicks, or four or five million tooth- |£Ks£' u V'^ i V 'The Dish Church has rather leaa than eight een months in which to lay anew her founda tions. The model of the American Episcopal Church is held up as a standard. Her three oo- , L.'ILT^nlts oi ordinate houses of bishops, priests (including j sefitanves report res ^ deacons)! and lay representatives have been found to work for nearly a century, and the) • n rtia» Irish Episcopalians are obtaining all th8 details j A jury of a justice aovri ^ they can. To Erastians like the Archbishop of I California decided that tef, ^ , Canterbury, this reference to American expert- 1 persons from carrying “rJoonrt ence is more than a little trying. j constitutional, because ^ A* old Scotchman of Boston used to say: j United States that ^ ^ “I’m open to conviction; but I’d like to see the i to keep andt* m»n that can oonvinoe me.” Old Minister Wells, j and the county Judge ct**" - the prodeoeseoT of the Rev. Ib*. Stores, of Brain-1 ” ‘ “ * ’* i^tv-c** tree, Mass., Jfimaelf a Scotchman, used to say: Tint temperature was nia*. ‘.‘It behoovetH a Softtchman to be.right; for if ’ l vw»-«rttild hot Gladstone A diaendowme: able oonsequenoes of tn® now in progress in ChurcB should like to be present when added sy>y alw,w— “Admission 15 otato’’—to' he be wrong he will be forever and eternplly fMt ** fcB 01