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.V cL ISBY & REID, Proprietors. * * >V;. • ' f •{ f • *. . The Family Joubnal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture-—Domestic Affairs. ;I . 4 • • ' w. t . , “ •-> ‘ ■ • r r GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING *Y~ » o* MW # K * * IVgVf ? -j ’-i ESTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1809. VU. XLIV.—.NO. — : Georgia Telegraph Building; Macon. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION 5 iIaiit TnWEArH-for one year.. «0 00 oi tr Tn*o«.»m -for «.x months 5 00 y Knr shorter periods One Dollar per month. fitn ,ciA S*M|-Wkexi.y Tklkokapii—or.e yenr.. 4 CO Jliosou Sexi-Weekly Xelkobapii—rix m’ths 2 00 u.iV>TH WtHtT Tir.sop.APH—one year .... 3 00 MissotH Weekly Tkueoeaph—tix months 1 50 ‘ tf Payable aluayt tit advanee.~f£& If,,<>lc nnd. Job Printing .Vearly executed at reasonable prices. Remittance* by mail with Postmaster’s certificate a oar risk- thcrohre and its Resources. eoo'dabiis—water vowkbs—agricultual PRO DUCTS—'MINERALS, ETC., ETC. Cabtebbvoae, Ga., August 10.—The bounda ries of this part of our State are Tennessee on the north, the Savannah river on the east, the Chutubixieica on the south, and State of Ala bama ob the west, and it was the last purchase j,r ibe Slate from the Cherokee Indians, and riTing to Georgia its present metes and bounda- rira. Its length from north to south is about I3rt miles, and width from east to west 180. By reference to the State map it will bo seen fiiat it is beautifully diversified with mountain and valley, everywhere presenting to the eye a l*uuty and variety of scenery rarely to be met with. and t0 that of the farmer a prospect which Mggests thoughts of plentiful harvests and over sowing barns. As to its streams, it is watered hy the Chickamnuga, Chattooga, Notley, Hia- wssee, Tullula, Coosawattio, Oostanania, Eto- y»h, Oonnesanga, Toccoa, Gartecay, Ellijay, ,nd Chattahoochee Rivers, with hundreds of their tributaries, on the sides of which lio vast fiitnts of bottom lands, which in fertillity of soil and variety of prodnetion are unsurpassed bt any other region on the globe. Though this *as the last settled section of the State, and even now only partially known, by its railroad isd river facilities, even before the war it had ton for itself the cognomen of the “Flanders of the South.” Who that ever traveled on the Western and jtlhnlio Railroad, in days of yore, does Dot re member the large depots at Dalton, Calhoun, Adiirsville, Kingston, Cass Station, Carters- rille, Etowah, Alatoona, Ackworth and Marietta, filled to overflowing with wheat, corn, hay, ba con and eottoD, which twenty daily trains could scarcely empty in time for the next crop ? And ill this was accomplished under a primitive system of agriculture, the average production Wing upon low lands from twenty-five to fifty bushels of corn, from fifteen to twenty-five bushels of wheat, and from fifteen to twenty bushels of oats. The productions of uplands ns from ten to twenty-five bushels of corn, nd other crops were in proportion. Grasses, too, grow spontaneously waist and shoulder high, and red and white clover also, making fine pasture lands for cattle, without the assistance of guano, or any of tho manipulated manures, coniieqnently we are anxious to see experiments nude at fanning on strictly scientific principles upon the best lands, and from the little we know of the matter we confidently predict a re sult not dreamed of by any of the people of the South. In 18.19 or 1860, a genfleman living about four ml« from this place raised on average of 2,500 pound* of seed cotton to the acre, and in other counties many planters raised ten bales of cot ton to tho baud, and larger crops of grain and pork than can be raised anywhere in South western Georgia. Besides the cereals and colton, the grape grows luxuriantly everywhere, and needs but culture to make the vineyards bnd and blossom like the rase with their Inscions fmit. Peaches and apples grow finely on the uplands, nnd the small fruits on all lands. Sheep raising may be made very profitable, as the mountains abound in the wild pea and wild grasses, which afford an excellent pasturage during winter. Of the mineral productions of Cherokee Georgia (here is no eDd. In Dade, Walker, and Whitfield counties there are extensive deposits of ooal, sandstone, nnd iron. In Walker county there is gravel ore similar to that in Missouri. In Hurray, Union, Gilmer, Fannin, Habersham, Franklin, Hall, Lumpkin, Cherokee, Pickens, Cass, Paulding, Polk, Carroll, Campbell and Heard counties are tho gold mines of Georgia, lu these counties lodes and deposits bnve been extensively worked—in a primitive way, to be sure; but they have produced enough to induce the Government to establish a mint at Dalonega, which was in successful operation until the breaking out of the war. The most celebrated mines are the White Path and Carteray of Gil mer county, the Obestater, Chastain, and a num ber of others in Lumpkin county, the Sixes and Pasco mines of Cherokee, the Allatoona of Cass county, and the Villa Rica, Bonner and Owen mines of Carroll. We have been repeatedly as sured bv practical m-ners, who havo visited the liockv Mountains and the mines in Nevada and inalio, that, with the improved machinery and the introduction of sluice-washing for deposit gold, go1J.digging here could be made more profitable than in California. It is, indeed, a fact that there is scarcely a stream within the above nsmed limits where anyone, with a com mon frying-pan and a shovel, may not obtain gold enough to pay good wages. Statntary marble nas also liceu found in Pickens county, nnd was extensively worked before the war. There is also a ledge nliont four miles from this piece. Slate of a superior quality has been found in Polk county, nnd Manganese is abundant in this 'Cuss) county. Iron ore abounds almost everywhere in this region, and from its proximity to cool, sand stone, and lime, and the great water power— essential requisites in the manufacture of iron— it would seem that nature had intended this as a great manufacturing center—in fact, as a second Pittsburgh. Before the war the Etowah Roll ing-Mill and ten furnaces were in full blast, and they terned out about 250 kegs of nails, 10 to 20 tons of rolled iron, and between 75 and 100 tons of pig metal a day, beside hollow-ware and Machinery castings fnlly equal to the demand. From these furnaces the rolling-mill at Atlanta »as furnished with pig metal, ns well as tho sev- tral foundries in that city, Macon and Augnsta. All of these, with the exception of one, were de stroyed during the war. Labor is cheaper here that it ever was before; Mid water privileges are so plenty that there &*uld not probably be found a single place with in the limits of Cherokee, Georgia that would h* five miles from a stream of sufficient fall and *ster to turn a merchant milL The scenery obont the Etowah iron-works, on •he Etowah river is very grand. And in the heart of all this wild and beautiful country, 90 miles south of Chattanooga, Tenn., and 60 miles north of Atlanta, five miles west of the Etowah iron.works described above, and two miles north the Etowah river, situated in a fine valley, ‘urrounded by towering hills, and on the West ern and Atlantic Railroad, is the thriving little tillage of Cnrtersville, spreading out like a tiny city, quite two miles square, and boastiDg al ready of some 3,000 inhabitants. It has five churches—Presbyterian and Methodist, a third church building (Baptist), and two colored thurches, (Baptist and Methodist), a fine large court-honse (being the county town) nearly com pleted, two hotels, four select schools, taught by thorough and highly educated teachers, alyceum for young men, and stores and shops of all kinds. The surrounding country has fine lands for agri cultural products, as you may easily leam any d»y from taking a peep into our large railroad depot, where may be found all kinds of produce je be shipped off, such as wheat, corn, cotton, lJ on, slate, manganese. etc., etc.; and in sum- jjjw, fruits to the different towns and cities oonth. In the depot, also, ia our express and telegraph office; and who that has been a wit-, ness to the destruction of the place by “Sher man's March to the Sea," would have believed that all this could have sprung into existenoe in five short years, when there scarcely as yet haB been a peace. We do not have the midnight i-iarauding Ku-Kluxes here. ' We boost of a bettor state of society, that frowns down such doings—a sociable, a hospitable people, that "‘th open arms will receive all new comers to Settle in their midst, even if they be “bated Yankees,” as they are elsewhere called. In climate we are greatly blessed. In sum- nier the thermometer rarely rises higher than 90 degrees, and then the nights, even during the hottest weather, are always pleasant. In winter the thermometer seldom falls below 32 degrees, and never to that daring more than three suc cessive days. Tho average temperature of tho winter months at sunrise is 42 degrees, and at 12 m., CO to 54 degrees. This part of Georgia is remarkable, too, for the variety of its mineral springs. Among those that have been improved are the Powder Springs, in Cobh county; Row land Springs, in this (Cass) county; Gordon Springs, in Gordon county; Catoosa Springs, in Catoosa county, and Cohutta Springs, in Mur ray county. Beside these, there are hundreds of others scattered all through this Cherokee Georgia of greater or less local celebrity. A sulphur vein has lately been accidentally struck in this place by digging a well, and it bids’fair to be a fine spring. An Important Discovery. A NEW METHOD OP rHESEUVINO THE HITMAN BODY A RIVAL OP PROF. OAMOEE. A correspondent of the London Athenaeum, writing from Naples, gives some interesting in formation respecting the means employed by Prof. Abbate, of that city, for preserving the human body. He says: Some secret similar to Dr. Abbate’s has ex isted for a long time, as all travelers who have visited Florence probably well know. In the Cabinet of Physiological Anatomy at Santa Maria Novello there are preparations of por tions of the hnman body by Dr. Segato. The Grand Dncal Government refused to purchase the secret, which died with Segato. His pre parations, I repeat, were only portions of the body, whereas that which is now being exhibited in Naples, in the ex-convent of Santa Maria della Nnova, is the entire body of a youth of seventeen years of age, who died of phthisis about the end of last January. For five months, therefore, it has resisted the action of a very variable atmosphere. The features, the integ rity of the form, are perfectly preserved as they were at the moment of death. The nails havo a roseate hue; there is no odor of any kind; and the flesh has the hardness almost of marble. To this lot it be added that the hair adheres so tenaciously to the head that it is im possible to remove it, of course without vio lence. The operation of embalming or petri fying is effected in a few hours, without the necessity of removing the dress; indeed, an other body has keen petrified according to the same system without taking off the dress, and even preserving the gloves on. “We know,” says a medical gentleman, not an Italian, to whom I am indebted for these details, “that some gentlemen of Naples, after having proved what we havo stated, have made an alteration in their wills, imposing it as an obligation on their heirs that they shall apply the system of Abbate to their bodies in the event of their dy ing before the professor.” This discovery has, however, a more practical and more important phase—that is, in preserv ing meat fresh. Abbate asserts he has succeed ed completely. There are difficulties iu this special application of it which would not pre sent themselves in the petrification of hnman bodies, such as the danger of introducing sub stances injurious to health, or affecting the taste, the appearance or the nutritive qualities of the meat. All these difficulties Abbate de*. clares he has overcome; and it is a known fact that a first rate house in Italy, whose commer cial relations with the Americans are considera ble, has nlready made offers to Abbate on the subject. Should it be proved by experience to be true that the wholesome food of man—which is now thrown away in vast distriits as utterly unavailable, or is only melted down for the sake of the fat—can by simple and inexpensive means be exported to Enrope fresh and good, an inestimable boon will have been conferred on hnmanity. This onr Professor asserts he can do; and as he already has done so mnch, surely his system deserves the attentive exam ination of all scientific men. During his life Abbate has no intention of making known the secret of his discovery, but he is prepared to visit any part of the world which he may be re quested to visit, and show the results of his in vention. Tlie Political Situation—Massachu setts to be Thrown Overboard. The Washington correspondent of the Balti more Gazette, writing on the 3d, gives an inter esting sketch of the political situation. He says: I telegraphed a week ago rnmors of a disa greement between President Grant and Secre tary Bontwell. Further developments more than confirm these rumors. It is now quite cer tain that, after much vacillation, the President will finally cut loose from the ultra Radical wing. Under Boutwell’s guidance he sees nothing bnt defeat staring him in the face. Look at the re sult in Virginia and in Tennesee! It is not con sidered good generalship to change front in face of the enemy, bnt there really seems no other ccnrse to puisne. On the one hand there is certain defeat. On the other—perhaps defeat also; but it is thought advisable to try a change of tactics, even though it be but a forlorn hope, Massachusetts will no longer be permitted to control the Government. Bontwell will have abnndant leisure to mature his presidential schemes in Boston, and Hoar can rest on his lau rels as a lawyer wlo manufactures partisan opinions, regardless of law or facts. Wilson will have to run his race for tho United States Senate against the wily Bntler, without backers; and Snmner, not being able to further war, or med dle in our foreign affairs, will have an opportu nity to look into domestic affairs, of which he will no doubt avail himself. It must not be in ferred that the millennium has arrived. The President has simply had to give way before the inevitable logic of facts. He sees that the Bout- wellites will as surely be defeated in Texas and Mississippi as they were in Virginia and Tennes see ; and as tho Conservative Bepnblicans prom ise to support his policy—a rash promise, it must be confessed, as the ways of his policy are past finding ont— he thinks it as well to be on the winning side. General Lee.—A correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing from the Virginia White Sulphnr Springs, devotes a par agraph to General B. E. Lee, and adds that the General seems especially anxious to heal the wounds of the war- The correspondent says: “Several ladies who were on a visit here at one time this season from a Northern State appeared to be without attention from their fellow-board ers. Gen. Lee observed the fact, and desired some of his lady friends to cultivate their ac quaintance. When these excused themselves on the ground that they did not know their names, and were without introduction, the Gen eral approached several of these visitors, saying to each, I am Mr. Lee—may I ask your name ?’ And when this was given, he promptly presented them to his friends, who received them most cordially.” Going Sooth.—The disastrous drought in Virginia and tho consequent inevitable scarcity of provisions next winter will dnve_ thousands from Virginia to more favored regions. The Danville Times hears that a farmer in that vi cinity, who employs forty negroes, has deter mined to remove to the South, where “the ne gro can get good wages, and the planter make money by working large farms and living some- j what after the old style." The Times says “With regard to onr colored population, ; henceforth there will be a star continually lead- ] ingtkem towards the sunny climate of the South. Virginia is destined, we believe, sooner or later to be laid off into small farms, and filled, up with industrious immigrants from other States. 1 [Pun ch b u rg _\ t tc*. ———i <«» ■ i Mr. Joseph, the Coolie agent at Charleston, S. O., baa received orders to supply nine thou sand laborers lit once. One thonsand. it iB said, will be employed upon the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad. Another thonsand for Co lumbia. ... , , . A colored' woman recently leaped from a train of cars in Mississippi whilst it was going t forty miles an hour. She fell, on her head, but escaped unhurt. Concrete Wall. • COLAPABCHEE, MONROE COUNTY,) September 6th, 1869. f Editors Telegraph: Can you inform me of the cost of a concrete wall ? What will be the cost of a cubic foot ? Say nothing about the cost of hauling rock and sand. What propor tion of sand, lime, and rocks? I am not so ignorant t»to attribute to you omniscience, bnt hope you may elicit from some of your readers satisfactory answers to tho above inquiries. Respectfully, Job E. Taylor. We have had some little personal experience with concrete wall, built as follows: Strong lime mixed in the proportion of fonr to five of sharp sand with one of lime. Having land foil of pebbles, which were riddled ont with a coarse seive. mixed as many pebbles with the mortar, by Instalments, as the mortar would hold.— Planted posts a little depth outside and inside the line of proposed wall, a foot higher than the wall was intended to be, and fastened them over top with a cross piece morticed at the requisite distance. Dug ont a foundation six inches be low the surface. Placed inch boards inside the posts and began to build. First a course of mortar filled with the pebbles, rammed down a little. Next, a course of large stones laid as solidly as possible and so as to break joints and tie. Next another course of peppled mortar, rammed again, and so on nntil the requisite height waB attained, and the wall topped off with one course of brick. Found a barrel of lime, treated in this wav, wonld lay fifteen lineal feet of wall five feet high above ground—a foot thick at the base, and tapering on the inside to ten inches at the top—in every respect a strong, serviceable and handsome wall. It will need some little dressing when the planks are removed, which may be done, in dry weath er, in twenty-four hours after the wall is laid. Use all the rock the mortar can possibly bo made to cement. From Meriwether County Flat Shoals, Ga., September 2, 1869. Editors Telegraph : The last number of my Telegraph, I find, bears the notification “out.” As your paper is an indispensable in my family, enclosed you will fiud three dollars for yonr Weekly another year. Permit me to express my unqualified approval of your course on all leading questions that have occupied the public mind, with one exception, viz: Chinese Immi gration. I can’t possibly see how the farmer is to be benefitted in the long run. I think if yon were to visit this section, you would agree with me that “natural immigration” (babies) was sufficient to fill up oar waste-places in a few years. The com crop in this section is very good. Five weeks ago tho prospect for a good cotton crop was never better; but now we will not make more than a half a crop. The drought has wrought tho change. Nearly all of the forms and many of the small bolls have dried up and dropped off. J. L. We have no idea Chinese Immigration to Geor gia is likely to annoy our correspondent.—Ed. Commercial Convention. The Commercial Convention which adjourned from Memphis will meet in Louisville on the 12 th day of October next. A circnlar from Col. Blanton Duncan, Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, suggests that all the Southern cities be represented by duly appointed dele, gates, and that the delegates who expect to at tend communicate the fact to him as early as possible. It is thought that the railroads will be liberal in passing delegates. At a meeting in Louisville on the 2d of last June, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That the people of Lonisville cor- dially extend a welcome to the delegates who may attend the Southern Commercial Conven tion on the 12th of October, and assure them that the great measures upon which they will be called upon to deliberate, will enlist the earn est attention of the business men of this city. Resolved. That the commercial interests of the whole Union are so inseparably interlaced that the prosperity of one section redounds to the interest of all, and tho depression of any portion is sensibly felt in every department of commerce. Resolved, therefore, That every effort should be made by the mercantile community of every State to resnscitate and develop the languishing interest of any portion of the country which may temporarily droop, and that, knowing no sectional division, we hold ont the hnnd of brotherhood to every American, in the hope that wise effort to benefit onr common country may cement affections and blot out the differ ences of the past. Resolved, That wo will extend the hospitality of Lonisville to the strangers who may come among us to aid in the good work, and thnt nothing shall be left nndone to impress them with a heartfelt, cordial Kentucky welcome. “Marry Us Twenty-seven Cents Worth.”— In Virginia, where the law fixes tho marriuge fee at one dollar, there is a reminiscence of a couple who many years ago called on a parson and re quested him to marry them. “Where is my fee?” said the functionary. The parties who were to nnite their fortunes did so at once, and found the joint amount to be twenty-seven cents. “ I can’t marry you for that sum,” said the irate old gentleman. “A little bit of sarviee will go a long way,” suggested the male applicant. “Ah! no,” said the parson, “you don’t pay for the size of the pill, but for the good you hope it will do you.” The lass, intent on marriage, began to weep; bnt the parson was inexorable, and the couple turned sadly to depart Just then a happy thought seemed to strike the forlorn maiden, and she turned and cried through her tears: “Please, sir, if yon can't many us full up. won’t you marry us twenty-seven cents’ worth ? We can come for the rest some other time." This was too much for the parson. He married them “full up,” and they went on their way rejoicing. Louder.—A man lately went hi '!•* New York post office, and putting bis moot <* ' deliv ery box, cried out, “Louder!” Ti- clerk sup posing the man to be deaf, nnd u..»t he wished him to speak ionder, asked him in a very loud tone the name of the person for whom ho want ed the letter? “Louder!” cried the man.— ‘•What name?” yelled the clerk.—“Louder!” again bawled the man, who now suspected the clerk to be deaf. The clerk took a long breath, and with all his might bawled ont the same question: “What name?” This was done so loudly that the echo seemed to return from the far off hills. The man started back in alarm, shouting to the very top of his big lungs, ‘ ‘Loud er, sir—Louder! I told yon Louder; my name is nothing else!”—“O ha! Oho!” 3aid the clerk; “yonr name is Louder, eh ? Didn’t think of that. Mr. Louder, here’s your letter." Mubdeb in Chesterfield, S. C.—The Demo crat says: “Yesterday a little negro boy about 10 or 12 years of age was brought here under arrest from the neighborhood of Cash’s Depot, for having killed a little girl, his cousin, only 6 years old. He deliberately stripped himself to kill her and avoid getting the tell-tale, blood on his clothing, and then put the bodyin a pond of water to conceal it.” ! : ' HE w KM#* V Leonide Lsblano, one of the leading .Parisian deaii-moudaines, is said to be worth over n mil lion franos. *r. Jenny Lind has become quite poor. Her husband has squanderedmost other money.. It is thought that she will open a school for opera- singors in. Paris. ■ 1 . , ’ -v» X 7 A Smart Quaker. Weekly Resume of Foreign Affairs. Mr. K , the Quaker president of a Penn- prepared fob the oeoboia teleobafh. sylvania railroad, daring the confusion some Great Britain.—The news regarding the har- yeara ago, called upon the W bank, with' vest of cereals is very cheering.. The magnifi- which the road kept a large regular account, and cent weather daring last week has worked like a asked for an extension of part of its paper fall- magician’s charm, and an abnndant yielding is teg due in a few days. The bank president de- expected. Prices are steadily declining, dined rather abruptly, saying in a rongh tone to j The press is still teeming with acknowledg- the functionary: . | jionts of the great skill which the Harvard “Mr. K , yonr paper must be paid at ma- 1 crew displayed in the late boat race, and turity; we cannot renew it-.” _ jthe Star, dwelling on the historical faot, that “Very well,” our qnaker friend replied and j the Pilgrim Fathers set forth from the same left thebank. i river Thames to seek a new home across the But he did net let the matter rest here. On ' seas, appeals to the fancy of the youth of both leaving the bank, he went quickly to the depot, 1 countries. and telegraphed to all agents and conductors on j Mrs. Stowe’s infamous effort to stigmatize the the road to reject the W bank; te a few f memory of Lord Byron, whose lustrons genius hours the trains bsgan to arrive, full of panic, ; will ever hold an exaltedplace te the Temple of and bringing nr of the distrust of the W Fanis, when the authoress of ‘‘Uncle Tom’s bank sll along lue line. Stockholders and da- Cabin” will sleep in a nameless grave, lias mot positors flocked to the hank quaking with panic, inquiring thus: ‘ ! What is the matter ? Is the bank broke ?” A little inquiry by tho officers showed that the trouble originated in the rejection of the bills on the railroad. The president seized Ms hat and rushed down to the Quaker’s office, and came bursting te with the inquiry— “Mr. K , have you directed thp refosal of onr currency by your agents ?” “Yes,” was the quiet reply. “Whyte this? It will ruin us.” “Well, friend L , I supposed the bank was going to fail, as it could not renew a little paper for us this morning.” • It is needless to a ay Mr. L renewed all the Quaker's paper, and eularged his line of dis count ; while the magic wires carried all around the road the sedative message : “The W bank te all right. Thee may take all its cur rency.” From Dougherty Connty, We clip the following from the Albany News of the 7th: Seven hundred and fifty hands are now at work on the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and if the Central will get up another injunc tion the number will be doubled. A Month Ahead.—Cotton picking te at least one month ahead of former seasons. If the labor is sufficient the whole erop in this section may be honsed by the first of November. In consequence, business has already assumed lively proportions te onr city, and merchants are hurrying up the renewal of their stocks. Capt. Allen’s Patch.—Capt. Allen, who manages Jordan & Lockett’s Foul-town planta tion, put te a speciality of six acres. It was highly fertilized with the Dixon mixture, and planted abont the 4th of May. Tlie first pick ing—last week—yielded tiro thousand pounds to the acre, and we learn that the patch will prob ably yield two more pickings of an equal amount—making 36,000 pounds to the six acres. The yield way fall short of the figures indi cated, bnt we doubt not this patch will take a premium at the State Fair. Editors Telegraph : Please notice the follow ing, a copy of which is sent to every Lodge te the South: Dalton Lodge. No. 105, F. A, M. ) Dalton, Ga., September 3, I860.) Dear Sir and Brother : The Corner Stone of St Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Dal ton, will be laid by the JL W. Grand Master, Brother Samuel Lswreuce, on Saturday, the 11th of-September, at 4 o’clock, p. m. Yonr Lodge, or so many of tlie Brethren as can make it convenient to attend, are respect fully invited to assist at the ceremony. Arrangements have been made with the Rail roads for tickets at half fare. Please give no tice to the Brethren. By order of I. E. Shumate, W. M. Ben E. Gbeex. Secretary pro tern. Safe as Yet.—The Griffin, Star closes up its reports of the Press Excursion as follows: In closing this sketch, we can truly say, we gathered more interesting, varied and useful in formation upon this trip than ever before in the same length of time. We were not “bought by Bullock,” “feted into silence,” nor “bribed” by anybody; nor did we see any such calamities happen to anybody else. Bnt we were charmed by the hospitalities of our railroad and State officials, and the citizens of the towns and places we visited, and the officials of other railroads and other highways; and we were specially de lighted to form the acquaintance, and we hope secure the friendship of so largo a number of talented and gentlemanly members of the Press and other citizens. The memory of the expedi tion will ever mark a happy era of our life. Cotton.—The cotton is opening very rapidly. It is almost impossible for the hands on any farm to keep up with tho bursting bolls. The dry weather and the rust have stopped the growth of the weed, and tho bolls are nearly all matured, and the whole crop will be on hand almost at once. The staple te also bringing a good price, and planters are hastening the bales to market and areselling, instead of storing. Up to the present time, 544 baleshave been received into this market and sold at an average of 28) cents.—Americas Courier. A small engagement,' resalting in the killing of sixteen insurgents, te reported to have oc curred near Contra-Maestro river, Cuba.— Eighty men, including twenty armed, presented themselves to the Spanish commanding officer there for protection. Insurgent sympathizers in Havana have startled the inhabitants by post- teg an incendiary proclamation throughout the city. London churches are nearly deserted at this season. A correspondent of a religions paper writes that he recently attended three churches in succession on Sunday morning. At the first the congregation consisted of one old woman and the charity children. At the second he was the only worshipper, and there was no service, and at the third thore was no clergyman to read service to the handful who assembled. Jamie sat in the gallery, wide awake, when many were slumbering around him. The cler gyman endeavored to awaken the attention of his hearers, by stating the fact, saying : “You see even Jamie Frazer, the idiot, does not fall asleep, us so many of yon are doing.” Jamie, not liking, perhaps to be thus designated, coolly replied: “An* had’ na I been an idiot I wad ha’ been steepin’ too.” A medal, of the time of Charles I, of Eng land, was recently sold in London a auction for §1,725. It represents the bust. < the King bareheaded, with long hair and wearing a Van Dyke collar. It te stated to be the medal given as a souvenir by the monarch to Bishop Juxon a few moments before his execution on the scaf fold at Whitehall. At De Vail’s Bluff, Ark., the negroes have formed a society called “The Bund,” on the idea of community of property, etc., extending even to their wives, provided a fair trade be made. Their mode of worship consists of a Vuudou dance around a stump upon which a snake’s head ban been placed at the same time chanting after peculiar African style. A law suit in New York has developed the fact that rag-pickers there make two to three dollars' a day profit. A gentleman one day indiscreetly asked a lady how old she was. “Let me see. I ires eighteen when I was inartied. and my hnsbund was thirty ; now he te twice thirty,.and that is sixty; so of course I am twice eigUteen, that te thirty-six.” : • . A Negro in Mobile recently tied his fish line on onB of his toes and went, to sleep on the banks of the river. A cut fish bit It was large euongh to drag him into the river and nearly drowned him. with a well deserved judgment of utter contempt for the writer by the voice of England. The solicitors of Lady Byron, te a letter addressed to the London journals, protest against the ar ticle on “Byron's Married Life,” published by Mrs. Stowe te the “Atlantic Monthly.” They state that the narrative te not authentic, but only the recollection of communications and im pressions derived from a manuscript read under great excitement thirteen years ago; they fur ther accuse Mrs. Stowe of gross breach of trust, asserting, at the same time, that the compilerof the “chroniqne scandaleuse" has violated the ex- press term of Lady Byron’s will. If common decency was unable to influence the defender of negro equality, she might at least have borne in mind the “De mortuis nil aisi bonum.” Eng land and America have passed judgment which will be confirmed by the whole civilized world. France.—The Emperor is sick unto death! This report spread wild alarm over the capital, and tho exchange, the true interpreter of pnblio feeling, gave expression to the general fear by the rapid decline of all seenrities. Official bul letins hasten to inform us that Napoleon has quite recovered; bnt great uneasiness must still be felt at the Tuileries; for the Empress, re nouncing her voyage to the Orient, has left Chambory, Savoy, to return to Parte. The Em peror’s sickness dates from the 13th of August, when, on the eve of his departure for the Camp of Chalons, ho was suddenly taken ill, and ns he repeatedly called for the Marshal de Saint-Ar- nnud, who died in the Crimean war, the symp toms were truly most alarming. There are sev eral acconnts of the nature of his illness. Apo plexy and rheumatism are generally pointed out; but the opinion that he is suffering from the same merciless disease which pnt a stop to Mar shal Niel’s career seems to deserve the greatest credit, ns Napoleon had already once to undergo an operation to remove the stone. France has just now entered upon a new phase of political life, which requires a gradual devel opment ; should death, at this critical moment, paralyze the hand to which France owes a great deal of her present prestige and prosperity, the land will, probably, be plunged into fresh civil commotions—for only a bigoted woman and a child stand before the throne of Dagobert. During the deliberations of the Sennte, re specting the Senates Consnltem, Prince Napo leon delivered two speeches, advocating more liberty and urging a more complete responsibil ity of the Ministers. They filled the servile Sen ators with great indignation, and Monsieur de Segnr termed the proceedings of the Prince as scandalous. Rumors affirm, at tho same time, that the Emperor, in an interview.with his cou sin, has approved of the liberal policy of the latter. Germany.—There te a very hostile tone pre vailing against the monastio orders since the revelations of Cracow. Iu Berlin a meeting of two thousand people took place, which, after a lengthened debate; declared in favor of the sup pression of monasteries and the expulsion of the Jesuits. A fanatic sermon preached by a monk on the occasion of the inauguration of a monastery belonging to the Dominicans in Moabit near Berlin, has contributed toward em bittering the public feeling. A crowd assembled before the building of the holy fathers, at night, and indulged in the pastime of shattering the window-panes and insnlting the friars. It is said that the Prior, incensed at the outrages, and perhaps, remembering the war-like spirit of the prelates of old, who very often exchanged the cross for tho battle-axe, seizing a hatchet sallied forth against the mob. Many arrests were made. The new Criminal Code for the North German Confederation, has been submitted to a commis sion of seven eminent lawyers of North Germa ny, selected by the Federal Council. It has also been published at tho samo time, in order to permit every one who possesses the requisite capacity and experience to take part in the national work, and, by making his views known to tho Commission, aid* them te their task and contribute to the improvement of the code. Austria. The City Council of tho Capital unanimously adopted a petition to be presented to the Ministry and both Houses of the Reichs tag, to abolish all monasteries and ecclesiastical corporations, the statutes of which aro opposed to the fundamental laws of tho Empire. There are still 6,110 monks and 4,814 nans in 676 monasteries in Austria, 2,730 monks and 770 nuns in 295 monasteries in Hungary. Iu the Hungarian Delegation, which was closed on tho 30th of August by von Beust Zsedenyi, the leader of the conservatives in the lower chamber at Pesth, made a long speech on the policy of the Chancellor. He blamed the South German aspirations of tho Count, and the tone of his dispatches. He commented at some length and with great severity on the charge brought against the King of Prussia with re spect to his personal influence at Buckarest, (ho dispatch to the Ambassadors at Munic and Stuttgart, and tho continued animosity to Prus sia. In the Oriental question the Chancellor had done well to support the independence of Turkey, but his policy had been too dependent on that of France. Spain.—Reports from Spain are a little more encouraging. Tho Carlist rising te gradually dying away. Don Carlos has left for England, reaiguing for the present all further attempts of investing himself with the royal purple. Prim te staying in Paris until Napoleon has sufficient ly recovered to receive him. Polo and his Sec retary will suffer the penalty of death; the ef forts of Polo’s wife and their friends to have the sentence commuted have proven fruitless.— Yielding to the solicitations of all parties the Government has withdrawn the death warrants of several Carlist priests, It te said that General Escalante in his dying hour has made important revelations to Admi ral Tdpete regarding the abuses of several com manders in the army and navy. Nows was received that General Sickles, tho American Ambassador in Madrid, has offered to Spain the friendly offices of the United States for bringing about the pacification of Cuba, but nothing positive is known. Russia.—Warshaw will be made a fortress of the firat-class. Since the abolition of serfdom tho vice of drunkenness has increased in an alarming manner in dtussia, and the consumption of alcoholic spirits has doubled since ISG3. In Moscow 4,- 224 persons were arrested on account of drank- enness in 1842; bnt 21,764 in 1S5S. There is an ample field for temperance societies in Holy Russia. Mr. Samari, a well-known Panslavist writer, in a pamphlet advocating the thorough Russifi cation of the Baltic provinces, maintains that Peter the Great, when he'signed the treaties guaranteeing the institutions which the inhabi tants of German descent are now vainly strug gling to defend, was drank. A courageous pro fessor of Dorpat, Mr. Schiersen, having ven tured to contradict this statement, has bJen dis missed from his post. A new reform measure, the trial by jury, is resolved upon l'or the empire. But as the Czar's Government considers a certain amount of edu cation indispensable for the exercise of so im portant a privilege) which in the hands of tho millions, who but too often lack the very first rudiments of learning and ordinary intelligence. Jabno. Superiority of the South Over the West. Under this head, the Charleston News pre sents the following interesting facts: The value of lands te determined by the money worth of their prodnets per acre. This, in tho absence of speculation and other disturbing in fluences, determines the price of the farm lands. A comparison Of the average yield to the acre te tha.Northwestaud South will show, therefore, the relative value of land in the two sections, and, incidentally, their relative prosperity. For i 0 f the planet the purpose of this comparison, we show the av- earthquakes, Intense-.. „„ oraga -yield to the acre of the most valuable sta- . have alternately spent their fnry upon pies in several States, the material for the ealeu- ... — lation being taken by a correspondent from the Report of the Agricultural Bureau at Washington. We find that Illinois yields oom to the value of §16 32 an acre, wheat at $22 45, and barley at §28 54 per acre. . Kansas yields corn at $26 ' A Savari in San Francisco predicts, from ae* troTiomical and meteorological phenomena now observable, a heavy earthquake early this au tumn. He says: During the past eighteen months the earth and other planets completed the -most. remarkable conjunction which has ever occurred; and on , the night of the 14th of last November we again ' witnessed the grand thirty-four year star-swarm. Every intelligent person is aware that for ft pe riod of nearly two years onr globe has bean sub jected to violent perturbations, such as have not before occurred for many, centuries.' These per- \ ‘ turbations have been generally over the surface. '' deal- r lAt, zena of every hemisphere. 3v oareful observa tions, astronomers have found that in a period of about eleven years the sun turns towards os , v . a remarkably spotted disc, and it has also been '■' \- observed than any sudden changes of light and pH shade upon the sun during this spotted period 64, wheat at §19 80, and barley at $25 92 per j instantly affect terrestrial magnates. It is well acre. Missouri yields com at §17 95, wheat at known that te the autumn of 1859, one of these' sun-spot perturbations was immediately foilow- §24 80, and barley at §30 80 per acre. Turn ing to the South, we find that Virginia yields a higher average of corn than Illinois, say $17 60, also tobacco at §86 25 per acre. North Caroli na yields tobacco at $112 79 per acre. Louisi ana* and Mississippi yield sugar cane at §200 per acre. South Carolina and Georgia yield rice at §95, and sea island cotton at §140 per acre. And the twelve cotton States yield up land cotton at an average of $G0 per acre. The value of the lands of the West is really far more speculative than intrinsic, and hereto fore they have advanced in price with great rapidity, not on account of their snperior pro ductiveness, but becauso there was a vast tide of immigration pouring into the United States whioh always flawed towards the West and rap idly settled* up the country. Each immigrant brought with him from Europe some gold, which contributed largely to towards forming the cap ital of the Western States. There can be now no doubt that our old institotion.of slavery dis couraged immigration, and so impeded the ma terial progress of the South. But now that slavery is dead, there te an open chance for the ed by one of the most brilliant aurora borealis ever witnessed te the northern hemisphere: and still more surprising the magnetic effect of the aurora was so great that messages - were i freely sent over telegraphio lines without connection with the batteries and by means of the auroral current alone. \ _ '; •v Many additional facts, showing the connection of celestial with terrestrial magnetism, might be given, bnt I have neither the time nor room at present.- Suffice it to say, ^hat as the earth’s magnetic foroes are now, and for many months have been, greatly disturbed by cosmioal influ ences ; and as we have recently made our an nual transit through the-nebulous belt; and as the sun’s surface is at this moment disfigured by an unuanal number of spots; and as tha moon on the 7th ultimo'passed between us and the sun, thereby causing an additional magnetic distnrbance upon the earth;. and- as we on tha Pacific coast are now experiencing an. unusually protracted dry season, the invariable precursor or temblors in this part of the world, for the fore- going and many other potent reasons, I predict competition of free labor, and as soon as our 1 a heavy earthquake to take place early next au- political affairs are well settled, confidence will, tumn, as soon as moist clouds float into the dry* be established and immigrants will ponr into j vaporless atmosphere., onr section and soon raise onr lands to their true value, which is really greater than the value of lands te the West. Tbe Pennsylvania Catastrophe. i Fearful Loss of Lift in a Coal Mine. The Culture of Ramie. i" ■ „ . -. :. , „ , , , „ „ j Plymouth, Pa., September 6.—A fire broke The New York Journal of Commerce says: ; out this morning in the flue and bottom shaft The numerous successful experiments of silk, j owned by the Delaware- Lackawanna and West- woolen, lace and linen cotton manufacturers in j era Company, in this plane, and te a short time several States, and still more extensively in Eu- ] the whole breaker and outbuildings were in rope, have created a demand for this new and . flames, and the hoisting apparatus, the only valuable staple far beyond tbe present produc- avenue for escape for the miners, destroyed, tion or means of supply. It is discovered that ; All efforts to stay the flames were unavailing, the ramie grown on the alluvial lands of the ' and the whole structure fell, fining up the shaft. lowerMississippihas a veiylong and exceedingly - Over two hundred men are in the shaft and have fine fibre, far superior to that grown in its native country, Java, and that the yield per acre is greater. In any of the more Southern Cotton States ramie can be harvested at least three times per year, and each harvest or catting will pro duce between nine and twelve hundred pounds, making an average annual crop of abont 3000 pounds crude unprepared fibre, worth at present in Enrope ten cents specie per ponnd. In pre paring the fibre for manufacturing purposes it loses about one-half, increasing it in value to sixty-five cents per pound. Thus, it is apparent that ramie, requiring comparatively little tillage to produce such magnificent results, is the most profitable crop that the planter can cultivate. The fibre when prepared for the spinner, is beautifully white, soft and glossy, closely re sembling floss silk te appearance; it is much stronger than the best flax, and readily receives the most difficult dyes without injury to its strength or lustre. To meet the manufacturers’ increasing de mands a company of enterprising and practical business men have organized “The Bamie Pro ducing and Supply Company,” and propose to operate near New Orleans on two thonsand acres of tho choicest alluvial bottom land in that re gion. With two or three skilled nurserymen to tend the plants, and one of Messrs. J. & F. Howard's steam cultivators, it is confidently ex pected the Company will have four or five hun dred acres of canes of their own growth to sup ply orders next season. They hope to produce in the crude state over six hundred thousand pounds, or about three hundred tons. A con ditional contract for the land on very favorable terms was made last April; and all the plants and roots known to be for sale in Texas have been purchased to commence operations with. We have reports of English manufacturers sand ing an agent to raise, or bny the ramie in Cali fornia ; but from all accounts our Southern val leys are the best adapted to its successful cultiva tion. A Liberal Old Soul. The Cincinnati Enquirer has been interview ing Gen. Grant’s father in part to the following purpose: After a brief pause, Mr. Grant said, “I don’t blame people much if they are rebels. I am opposed to having niggers vote. I always was and always will bo. I wouldn't now, and never will vote for niggers. If I was an able- bodied young man, and was elected to the Legis lature, and a nigger was elected to sit alongside of me, I wonld say, ‘Nigger, take both seats.’ ” Reporter.—The Republicans say they consid er it necessary to adopt negro suffrage in the rebel States, in order to control the- “disloyal” element. no communication out, with no chance for air, as the only way for getting air into the shaft was through the main opening, and that was filled' with burning timbers and the debris ofiflames. It is feared that 1 the whole number have been suffocated by the smoke or perished, for the want of air; The fire departments of Scranton, Wilkea- barreand Kingston are playing streams down the shaft, for the purpose of quenching tbe fire, so that the rubbish can be cleared out and the condition of the men ascertained. It will prob ably take till to-morrow morning before tidings can be received from them. The scene is heartrending. Families are congregated in great numbers. Miners from all. parts of tha country^ are there at work, and merchants, and in fact the whole population of the town, have turned ont to assist. The,loss by the 'fire will amount to about §100,000, partly covered by insurance. All the physicians of the vicinity had been summoned to attend, when the conditio* of the men had been ascertained. The affair has cast a gloom upon the whole community, and busi ness is almost entirely suspended. Tha miners only resumed work to-day, after a suspension of three months. Among the men hi-tbe mines It Mr. Hughes, the Superintendent . . 10 a. m.—After the rubbish from. the. bottom of the shaft was cleared away, two men de scended te a bucket and sent word up to send down a pick and shovel to clear the doors with. The bucket was brought up and two men started down with the tools. As they started, the men at the bottom requested them to hnriy, and os reaching the bottom both were'found dead. No hopes are entertained for the men in the shaft. AU are supposed to have periehed. Tbe black damp is very bad here. From- Monroe tloumty,. ■> The Advertiser of the 7 th, has the following: The amount of cotton which has been brought to Forsyth thus early in the season is simply astonishing. On- the 5th of September, 1868, flie first of the sew crop -was brought to that market Up to yesterday, one hundred bales of’ this year’s crop-had been received in Forsyth. This comparison will give some- idea of the ef fect of the unfavorable seasons of .the past .month. The crop is premature, and will fsQ . fully one-half short of the usual yield. We learn from Mr. Jas. M. White that the caterpillar made its appearance in his cotton last Sunday, and is playing havoc with his crop. Up to that time his prospects were better than most of his neighbors, his crop being planted on bottom lands. M the caterpillars, however, continue to make headway as they have for the past few days, his ootton will be ruined The farmers of Pike are very blue about the prospect of the cotton crop. It is the same old tale—dry weather, rust, etc. The crop through out Monroe, Pike and the surrounding counties President’s Father.—Well, it was during the war that a lot of Radical Abolitionists and fa natics got themselves into the Republican party, ^ and have ruled it ever since. Them and those | jg opening very fast, and farmers are busy pick, carpet-sackers, who went down there to steal, j j n g ou ^ have foisted this thing on the pimple of the Th Monroo Agricultural Society held a phb- States. The StateB could have been a great ^ . .. „ , . a , deal better constructed without it, and there ; l ,c discussion on immigration last Saturday, will be trouble about it yet, while Virginia and ! Opposed to it—Col. Pinckhard and Judge Phin* Tennessee have as good as voted against it now. j in favor—Dr. Lawton and Geo. W. Ad- If I had my way, and it could be P^ceably am8 Adjourned for further debate, without 4 done I d divide the country into two separate < j ec j s £ on# , , nations. It would be better for both. I’d draw a line from the eastern border of Texas to ; The following statement was telegraphed front -' Alaska, anfl1 put all west of that under a^eparate j Washington on the 3d instant: government. Id have treaties of amity and f ° • •*-■■-•■.v. ^ commerce between the two nations like those : was held ^to-night m one of the between the States, and free trade, or pretty wards, by black Republicans, at. which it wa« near so. The people would live more peaoe- stated that there was great suffering, reaehlng ably and be more happy. The Western nation almost actual starvation, among the negroes, could take Mexico and all south of that, and the It was shown that the corporation had not been eastern take Canada. Canada is bound to be able to pay the negroes who had worked on th* * onrsany wav, some day; bnt we don’t want streets for three months, and that the city ia Cuba or‘Mexico. bankrupt. The Mayor was further charged Reporter. The General never took much in- with having swindled Uie city out of etevu terest in politics before now, did he ? thousand dollars. Property holders here are so President’s Father. Ha never said much, no disheartened, that, the Baltimore Bun, of thia more than he does now; but he always watched morning, says they are selling here at a aaexi- . closely, and knew what was going on. fice and moving to that city, .* ’ ultsses WILL HANG on to thk white house. ^ % baE d of robbers operating te the Beporter. I suppose Gen. Grant will be sick neighborhood of Sand Mountain, te Alabama, of the place before his time expires, and will not Tll ey waylay travelers and take their horses, care to have it another term. watches, etc. ’1 President’s Father. I don’t know. He won’t a wt.t. will be offered in the next Congress to; “ want to retire from public life while he is so make two States of Tennessee by separating the young. It would go pretty hard with him, I middle and western divisions front the eastern,’ think, to give up the W hite House. j There are at present only twenty-eight oon- ■ ;— victs in the penitentiary te Alabama,. the bat- •' The Loss of Weight in Cotton.—The qnes- once being at work on the different railroad*. - tion of the lesa sustained by cotton under the hla. Spurgeon, tea recent sermon, referred. * ordinary action of the atmosphere is an inter- to the velocipede, saying that tbasq new raven- esting one to growers and cotton dealers, and Rons which the lads were riding down our experiments te reference to it will be viewed streets would not keep up unless they were kept ; with attention. Our fellow-citizen, John H. going • the moment they stopped they f«U down; Holmes, Esq., cotton broker, Boyce & Co.’s and in this they were exceedingly like th* ’ wharf, has purchased a bale of new cotton, Chrintian church, which would fail unless it wss \* grown in Orangeburg county, in this State, constantly moving on. classedfulllowmiddling, and weight 419 pounds. The San Franciseo Balletin says tbe Chinese This bale has been put on a scale in his office, gnnflay^chool ia thatc&ty “i» ia-a flourishing and will have a thermometer near it, the range ooadition, bnt its attendaooe wonld be much • of which will be noted twice each day, the char- jf the Chinese did not fear the attacks acterofthe weather and *he direction of the r ,g i , na m the atre^t. 1 * wmdwiU be recorded, and ‘he tossorgate of MarrIAo* of firat Conans will be iltegal te N*W . the bale will be written down regularly. Ine ^ w fu*^.**** bale will be retained te this position tor twelve Hampshire on ehnstmM and tUmafte^ The housekeeper of Geoq*aN**id%*ald to&» ' ... puruiub i v . It is said to be a common practice in Pans ro • ignorant is like a pondorous weapon in the fee- hire poor people to attend fashionable churches, grasp of a child, the Governors of all Dis- so that the preachers may say that they always t rlc t s ero required to prove that a sufficient have • crowded houses. Two or three hous pay num (j er 0 f intelligent men is living within their for a worshipper. ’ *i~- : - I jurisdiction. This is a wise precaution, strange-,—. t- m ^ ^ Avdsew Johnson fins' gone to Bed Sulphur ly contrasting with other countries, where that! months, in order to test thoroughly the Iom or the h usexeepe . ng*, M.icon county, 'Tonu., for his health. boon indiscriminately is bestowed upon the gam by atmoephenc action.—Charleston Acics. UST * ."** " * ■'• " !«V- '> 'f f'Xi. -Jji'- »<*».>' ■> JW.i - i.