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Newspaper Page TextLjgpY & REID, Proprietors. The Family Jocbnal.—^Netys—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826.} MACON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1869. VOL. XLIV.-M 10 Telegraph Building, Macon. » ;es of subscription KMArn-for one rear | /if IJ’ Lt rg 4 pi[ -for sis months o w K*r . Ihoitcr perioJs One Dollar per month. I r ,°:sMi-'Vr.«Ki.TTEBKCBAPH—one year.. 4 00 !■*»* / r X.\Vr.sKi.T Telegraph—six m’ths 2 00 IRfaVncLT Tki.ecraph—one year...™ « Ifd* 1 ’" \vstitLV Tm eoraph—sue months., | JSi0 gfr«V^ e nlirawt in adeance.~£Zk v fl ntl Job Printing executed at reasonablo prices, hy n 11 * 1 w,t h Postmaster’s certificate a L-iiA- 810 00 500 3 00 ISO Roller from Chalybeate Springs. '(G<i’l Sti'Mn ratting Away—Beneficial Ef- and flowers, but bloom and sweeten our lives, not only in this world but even in that which is to come. This, MeSSTS. Editors, is my last letter from this retreat, which I quit quite as reluctantly as those who have preceded me. The reports which come up to you from all parts of the State, concerning the ruinous effects of the late almost unprecedented hot weather and drought apply with equal truth to this section. Invalid. Cave Spring, Ga. This is a place of much attraction about six teen miles southwest of Rome, in Floyd county. The spring issues in a bold, clear stream from fissures in the limestone rock at the foot of a high hill or small mountain. The water is quite cold and agreeable to drink, though slightly im pregnated with lime. It makes a very pretty and refreshing-looking creek of considerable size, as it runs through the village. About half-way up the hill, and directly above the spring, is the month of the cave. The opening, which is through limestone rock, is small, and the passage, though winding, is all the way downward, so that at the bottom of the cave, where first reached, you fire almost imme diately under the month. Ladders or steps have in two places been constructed to aid in the de scent ; in other places steps have been cut in the winding and sloping sides, making the de scent easy and safe. The depth is said to be one hundred feet The cavity, when the bot tom is reached, runs upon a nearly level plane to the distance of perhaps forty or fifty feet, with a high but narrow and irregular roof, and then contracts into a low and close passage, resort jeawias, even when they can be absent only I ifew days. The effect of the water here is ^ beneficial Six weeks ago it required two I for me to get here, though the distance areki was leas than fifty miles, and the means I d txaejsnee was railway and a coach. To il. 1 coni J walk the distance in the same time, (iiis improved faster than yonr correspond- gig Water—The Minerals and the irnerM SpriW* in the Region—The Pine and n,ik Mouri'iiM—The Valley of Talbot—Ne- it „ ( ,r a State Geologist and a Bog Laic— “L j (Mt t Preparing for Another Season— and Friendships at the Springs— —tlC. fliftrt Tt’^raph: The gay season, like onr I r t fi. i« fas* drawing to a close. Many visitors, ^specially the devotees of pleasure, haveal- rtily returned home, or have sought other places ^wernaat and gaiety. Only quiet people and -vaiids remain, and some of these, oven, in deed by the late co °l weather and the de- of business, have left us. And yet this I jj tie month of all in the year when invalids 1persons who have overworked themselves j at the end of which is a spring that finds its way I resort to the springs and fly to the put through fissures, and probably connects with the creek runrnng from the large spring. There is another opening of the cavo (not used in en tering it) above and nearly in a line with the place where it contracts into the low passage, and from this opening a ray of light is cast into this part of the cave, so that it is not dark enough to require artificial light in exploring it until the low passage is reached. Tho temper ature in the cavo is cool, and we fancy that it would be a delightful place in which to take an \T^‘i«« -* *»• «« I tacts. The water and climate seem to be par- The region around Cave Spring is probably I jdiilv adapted to the improvement and re- ! as fine a section for agricultural purposes as is I -limretion of females in feeble health, and : be found in upper Georgia. The village is 1 " , AhwntiA AianWiaM I 131 * beautiful andrich valley surrounded by , who are suffering from chrome disorders. . moantains . Tto ^ ftre Te ^ fertiIe; a ^ jlbysre very good for men also, but ladies j portion of them being the "chocolate lands” I to. !d improve faster, except when afflicted . that are said to be so productive. They are I rah pulmonary affections, in which case the ; held at high prices—$50 and even $75 per acre Lre are not beneficial, but rather injurious. ° ft ££ £*5 ^ . , , ” . . .. , - 1 ments. These lands produce large crops of I Urn not informed what is the elevation of v/heat, corn, or cotton—they are also good for I (Lis pli.ee above the level of the sea. I only j clover and the grasses—and the fruit in this re- how that it is sufficient to insure one delight- j gi°n is very fine. Altogether it is a most desi- t .i,,,. j. ._ n |, „ „ rable and inviting section of the State, and will fty tod nights, even in such a heated term as no doabt np r ° pialv ftat recently experienced, when the thermome- j iron ore crops out on a hill a few miles west imaged nine degrees lower here than it did i of Cave Spring, and it is said to bo abundant on in Macon. Seven miles west of this place i J*“t and other hills of the locality. This ore ist resort, and where the baths are represented , iron- A nugget of it feels almost as heavy as ^persons who have visited the principal water- the pure metal. I isgplaces in this country and Europe, to be in- ! The Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad runs ***>»—» ***«■«»•*. Seven mile, j wsiof die Warm Springs are the White Sul- : Vfe learned that it was “vacation time "when phr Springs, which was a pleasant resort be- j we were there; and that the number of pupils fare the war, but which is not kept up now. i when it suspended exercises was fifty-six. Suf- Keport savs these last named springs are for 1 *j, clent time was not allowed ns to visit both the bIa If so, they present a fine opportunity for j c “ve and the Asylum.—Columbus Enquirer. ■ investment to a man of energy and enter- j “ ***“ {rise. All these watering places lie north of ) Mtmac. fee mountain and in Meriwether county. In- i The best imported sumac is a product of led. this entire region abounds in minerals and , Sicily, and other sections of Southern Europe, exral waters. Within a mile of the Chalybe- J It is a thickset handsome shrub, and in its wild He Springs, and just at the foot of the monn- ; state grows to the average height of about ten si. is a rich bed of iron ore, which parties j feet. It is very much improved by cultivation, nre preparing to work when the Confederate j and in Spain, Portugal, and Italy is extensively Buies surrendered. -I grown for domestic use and for exportation. The general direction of tho Pine Mountain is j Until quite recently the quantity of Sicily su- nnheast and southwest. Three miles to the . mac imported into the United States was very fat of us there is an offshoot of the mountain large. The bark, leaves, and flowera of the to the northwest, which encloses the Chalyb- * young shoots of this shrub are ground and used ate Springs in a sort of cove. On the south ; iu tanning morocco and other kinds of leather; tide of the mountain is another offshoot, called j but it is also used in the arts and for various Ojk Mountain, which runs a littl& west of south, (purposes. The shrub is valuable for its med- hetveen the Oak and Pine mountains lies what • ical properties, and the berries are extensively is inown as the Valley of Talbot county. It is i used in decoction for malignantffevers and in- fci-ihaped, and varies in width from one to six 1 flammation of the throat. ■te. The lm.il in the Valley is undulating, I American sumac grows wild in all the Atlan- *eU watered, abounding in fruit and exceeding- j tio States from Maine to Florida, but until rer ly fertile. The soil is of a rich mulatto color, cently it was thought to be almost valueless fo- iad produces cotton, com, wheat, oats, and all! tanning. the fruits and vegetables comjnon in this lati- j Abaut the year 1856 a shrewd Virginia tanner hide, in great abundance. - The Valley is partic- ‘ made several experiments with the domestic ar- ckriy noted, however, for its immense crops of ' tide, and became convinced that if gathered at wheat. The lands, which arc considerably worn I the right time, and prepared in a proper man- in some places, are selling at from ten to forty j ner, it was nearly, if not quite equal to the dollars an acre. I saw a field recentlv, belong- '■ average of tho imported. ingtoMr. Bedford Bonner, which is’known to j The average strength of tanning in the best have been in cultivation for seventy years—hav- Sicily sumac is sixteen per cent. The very best ing been cleared and worked by the Indians— ! imported yields twenty-five per cent. A fair open which there is an excellent crop of com. i cargo of American, recently analyzed by an There is a mineral spring at the foot of Oak English chemist, yielded twenty per cent, mountain, eleven miles from Talbotton, known : The best native sumac is grown in Virginia as the Oak Mountain Mineral Spring. As al- ' and Maryland, and it is thought under careful ready remarked, this whole region abounds in 1 tillage this variety can be made to yield about minerals and mineral waters^ The same is true ! twenty-three per cent of tannin, of many other parts of Georgia, but tho value French snmac yields only seven per cent and extent of our mineral wealth can never be ' tannin, and sells in tho English market at about “own. or at least for many years, until onr . 843 per ton. Sicily sumac, yielding from six- wgislatnre shall have tho wisdom to provide , teen to twenty-five percent, tannin, sells at S<--> [orthe appointment of a State Geologist Our to $140 per ton. American, yielding twenty hw-makers 6pend much time and squander im- per cent, tannin, brings about $00 per ton. **nse rams of money upon measures of a par- The late rebellion developed many industries kan and local character, but seem to be utter- at the South, that before that event languished k oblivions of the duty resting upon them to for want of encouragement and material aid.— tta steps for the ascertainment and develop- The people, though suffering, were forced to tint of our material resources. I am only one emply many sources of wealth iu their section ml of nearly two hundred thousand voters in of country, that had too long been neglected. Gwgia, but if the other voters were like my- : They seized with avidity upon the sumac that $ no man should ever hold office again in this ! grew wild and luxuriously in the Southern W* who is opposed to the appointment, with i States, and under tho impetus thus given to its ^nate salary, of a competent State Geologist, ; development, it promises to becomes leading rtto tho passage of a dog law. I have never J article of export. One single manufacturer pro- better mutton south of Virginia than that ' duces six hnndrod tons per annum, and a con- **Uve had here this summer, and but for the j siderable portion of this amount is sent to En- l^ler of dogs which everybody, white and rope, and finds a quick sale in the English mar- old and young, is allowed to' keep, mut- j kets. _ ^tonally good might be abundant and cheap • Domestic sumac is used extensively by onr Cover the State. With a little encouragement J own manufacturers, and it enters very largely Domestic Manufacture or Railroad Iron. The glowing descriptions by the “excursion ists,” of the incalculable mineral wealth, of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, and the nn- equaled facilities for utilizing it, fills us with wonder. We wonder not only at the munifi cence of the Creator of these resources to be developed and used by our people, but at the apparent want of appreciation by the people of these possessions. We are informed that the works at Colum biana, Ala., turn out pig iron at $40 per ton, and realize about 100 per cent, profit at these figures. We are advised by a report to the Weekly Resnrne ol Foreign Affairs. PEEPABED FOB THE GEORGIA TEIXGBAPH. Geeat Britain.—The Government will prob ably introduce an Irish land tenure biH into the next session of Parliament. The cabinet is discussing a full pardon to be granted to the Fenians who were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment. Mysterious hints are given by the press as to the future position of Canada. It seems as if the British Government were earnestly consid ering the chances of raising the dominion to an independent Empire, with a younger son of Queen Victoria, Prince Arshur, for instance, now traveling in Canada, at its head. stockholders of the “ Empire State Works,” The London papers are still publishing lead, situated near Trerifnn. rm the Wills Valiev Rail- - «.* wo might, in addition, produce wool j ftongh j n n f ew years to clothe every man and ’ tcaum in the State. ■quoted ■ $155 per ton,) has caused a rapid diminution of its use, and the selected Virginia is fast taking .Thelessees of the Chalybeate Springs will the place of Sicily, in manufactures, the arts, -tote the coming winter and spring to tho and all other uses to which the article is applied. •'Jther improvement of the premises, and to ijtpar&tions for another season. New build- rill be erected and old ones repaired, and ** grounds will be thoroughly broken np, ma- Those agriculturists who live in a belt of land lying along the seaboard, and extending from New York to North Carolina, can, by the use of proper means, make sumac a very profitable gmuQiis will do iQuicvauiv uroacu up, mu- v-r— > L, ... “I .. f'-Hand seeded, and cli tho walks and ont- ! crop. The cost and labor of its production is improved and renovated. The lessees i not great, and it will yield ample returns for the Tim • j.i.~ nnrtital pTnfiTulerl in its cultivation,—-Mercantile ^r* without experience in tho conduct and f^Mgement of a fashionable watering place, with tho knowledge they have acquired f-k year, they expect another season to *Me to meet all the wants of their guests, to make this one of the most pleasant re- in the whole South. If possible to get ~; t ®, they will procure a corps of well trained ^t« servants, and will certainly provide them- JkJri with a full force of experienced cooks .^laundresses. They have already engaged j Macon Italian band, the best I have ever States.** an ^ place in the United these improvements and arrangements -■ Chalybeate Springs cannot fail to be one of most pleasant summer resorts in this coun- 2: Even under the adverse circumstances which the lessees were surrounded this year, ti doubtful whether the visitors at any water- -g placo ever had a gayer or pleasanter time 2*® l he visitors here have had this season. I w? seen more than one smooth cheek bedewed kare, when the hour came to bid farewell icts° healing waters, and these scenes of so , - c a innocent and healthful enjoyment. Bnt J?*® Joy 8 have their limits, and beauty and .j} 1 “° l h° peach and the rose, have their sea- loveliness and triumph. Yet the ine-' t .",. “ Lour of change aDcl death comes to all M*®- May one not hope, however, that the ps formed here, and the loves bom efi'* 1 * 1 these umbrageous trees and along these • « walks, will not pass away with the fruits capital expended in its cultivation.- JournaL The Last Cotton Crop—2,260,557 Bales. By a special telegram to The News, pub lished in another column, it appears that tho to tal cotton crop of 186S-’60, according to the New York Shipping and Commercial List, is 2,260,557 bales. This statement will, we ore sure, greatly surprise all who are interested in onr great staple, as it falls far below the lowest estimate np to the present time by those who are accustomed to give much attention to cot ton statistics. The New York Shipping and Commercial List’s crop statements have for many years been accepted as the authority by which the actual amount of the crop should be determined, and we do not desire prematurely to question the correctness of its figures in the present instance. We feel bound to say, how ever, that such dissatisfaction was expressed last year, at the unusual and large additions made by the Shipping List to the actual receipts at the ports, and by which the crop of 1S67-68 was made largely to exceed the estimates of other well informed authorities. It seems pass ing strange that the Bame journal should, this year, have made the crop so much smaller than everybody anticipated. We shall await the re ceipt of the full detail* of the estimate, and may have more to say upon the subject, should we see reasonable cause to doubt their accuracy. [Charleston Reus. ' ' '‘A- V situated near Trenton, on the Wills Valley Rail road, where the ore, coal and lime necessary for the production of pig iron are abundant and in close proximity, that the pig iron can be pro duced at a cost of $9 35 per ton: whereas, at the North the cost of production is $30 to $35. Now, if these figures'are facts, why is it that our railroad companies are paying some $75 per ton for rails in New York? “Want of capital by those who have confidence, and want of con fidence by the capitalists,” may be the answer. But have our railroad presidents looked into the matter ? They must have iron, not only for the first construction of their roads, but for neces sary repairs constantly recurring. We are not familiar with the modus operandi and cost of converting pig into railroad iron, but there is a wide margin between $25, which we will assume as the cost of producing the former, and $75 the present price of the latter in New York. If private capital cannot be obtained for the purpose, would it not be highly advanta geous to different railroad companies to furnish the necessary capital for extensive rolling mills with the most approved facilities for the manu facture of rails, chairs, spikes, etc.? If not, the reports of our immense mineral resources are mythical—a conclusion we cannot adopt, but rather believe “the half is not yet told.”—Alba ny News. ' Tbe London Times and 51 r. Bright on the Cotton Trade. Tho London Times had another article on the 10th, on the cotton trade and supply. It says: “There was a time when the intelligence of a good supply of cotton in the United States would have carried satisfactory assurance to the manufacturers and workingmen of Lancashire. The sudden destruction of the old cotton trade has been attended with the destruction of the old conditions. Things are no longer as they were. Though the cotton supply has come back again, new.fields and factories have been opened, some under the shelter of protection, and some in a more natural atmosphere. A more extensive demand for the raw material raises the price, and that rise deprives us of the conditions essential to the superiority we once maintained.” John Bright says in a letter a good harvest will tend to restore health to the general trade of the country, and when we have a sufficient supply of cotton, Lancashire will recover from her distressed condition. It is more cotton we want, and not more taxes on imports. I sus pect the people of Lancashire will not fail to understand this. A Walled City. Since the recent storm in the Southwest which submerged portions of the Crescent city, the Picayune is strongly urging the project of wall ing the city all round as a final protection against overflows. If this be done we shall have the first walled town in the United States. Picayune of the 10th says: In a visit to the rear of the city yesterday evening, we were pained to see a large section still under water, and much of the water from the canals which has spread over a vast area of nearly level land will never be drawn off by any of the draining machines, and will stand -until evaporated by the action of the sun’s rays. It is fortunate for the city that the summer is dy ing and that but little if any injniy can accrue from the miasma arising from these bodies of stagnant water. In midsummer it is more than probable that, under the present circumstances, not all the quarantine regulations on earth would have averted a decimating epidemic. Every sensible man feels and knows this, and we have not conversed with a single individual who is not an earnest advocate of having con structed as speedily as possible the wall, or levee, as described by the Picayune, around the city. We are pleased to notice that the Bulletin also strenuously advises that the measure be adopted as the only one which promises permanent re- lief. . Editorial Decoeem.—Col. Forsyth, of the Mobile Daily Register, who is well styled the Bayard of the Southern Press, in a controveraal article with the Tribune, says: The editor of the Tribune confesses to the opinion that a gentleman may say things in print under license of the editorial “we,” which, to say in '■'■propriapersona," would be violative of the rules of courtesy and propriety. We do not agree with him, for the reason that we can not conceive of any circumstances to reconcile a gentleman to even momentarily forgetting himself and throwing off his true character.— In fact, the manners and habits of gentlemanly courtesy cannot be cast aside like a garment and resumed at pleasure. The Aie-Line Ratleoad.—Tho grading for the first twenty miles of the Air-Line Railroad is nearly ready for the rails. The locomotive, cars and iron for this road is expected the com ing week. As soon as it arrives, the rails will be laid to Peachtree Creek. The timbers for the bridge at this creek are now nearly ready for putting np. It is estimated that in four days time the bridge can be so nearly completed as to allow the trains to cross. When this is done, the work of laying the rails will bo continued until the whole twenty miles is laid down. In a few days the contract for grading the road to Gainesville, will be give out. We learn that it is highly probable that the Air-Line Road will purchase the depot of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, as a freight depot. Under the sage advice of its Chief Engineer, the Air-Line is rapidly progressing, and will soon garner in the products of North Georgia.—Constitution. Adieu to Chignons.—The Empress has de creed that high puffs and frizettes shall no long er exist. The long chatelaine braids, looped at the back of the head and falling to the should ers, are hereafter the style. There is an evi dent trace of the changes in the Empress' sen timents in these modes of hair dressing and the fashions which follow them. In her brilliant prime she emulated the splendors and frivoli ties of Maria Antoinett’s court and the minau- deries of La Yalleries and Pompadour. In her pensive and graceful decline she reverts to the stately and exclusive manners of the ancient chatelaines. These suit the hoopless skirt of flowing velvet or poult, the cavalier plume and the wide brimmed hat, the embroidered gaunt let and the drooping braids. One will no long er recognize the fashions of the demi monde and of kings’ favorites in the allurement of coquet tish puffs and long crimpel tresses, in the dre3s flattering wi(h ribbons and bows and light with boullions; a quieter, more decorous and aristo cratic style, none the less costly, has its advent with the chatelaine braids. Englishmen still cling with tenacity to the hope that Dr. Livingstone is still living, not withstanding so long a time has elapsed since any tidings were received from the African trav eler. They believe that he is the captive of some African chief, or that he has turned away westward from Lake Tanganyika, having per haps found a clue to the origin and water sheds of the Congo river. A letter from the wife of the well known traveler, to Captain Burton, and which is supposed to reflect the latter’s views, expresses a belief that Dr. Livingstone is a prisoner at the Town of Lnceda, or Lunda, the capital of the King of Cazembe. Pavin’ Paint—The white put upon railway companies, in accident cases, by coroners' juries. < ' . ; ing articles and communications, “all condemn ing, in more or less emphatic language, Mrs. Stowe and the publishers of the .Atlantic Monthly: The Daily News differs, and ex presses its opinion that the authoress has but furnished a valuable contribution to warfs invest igating the truth of history. A financial failure, scarcely less disastrous iu its consequences than the famous Overeud, Gaerney «fc Go. catastrophe, of 1866, has oc curred in the metropolis. The Life Insurance Company-“Albert,” enjoying a yearly income of £300,000, or $1,500,000 gold, and possessing a capital of insurance amounting to £8,000,000, or $40,000,000, gold, is bankrupt. This gigan tic establishment is said to have been conducted in the most .reckless manner for the last ten years. 22,881 holders of life policies, and the far greater number of those for whose provision the insurances were made, are enveloped in the common ruin, which stretches beyond the United Kingdom, for on the continent, too, es pecially in Germany, the company boasted of an implicit confidence. Fbance.—Europe is watching with intense anxiety the course of Napoleon's malady. A relapse the Emperor met with wa3 the signal for a panic in Germany, where the sauce qui pent seemed to have been adopted for a little while. This general feeling of uneasiness but foreshad ows the anarchy which will likely follow tho death of Napoleon IIL Despite aU official bul letins to the contrary, it is a fact that tbe Empe ror of France is still hovering on the brink of the grave. It is worth mentioning that he has lost confidence in the most skilled physicians— oven in Dr. Nelaton, upon whom with a lavish hand he has showered wealth and honors for an operation successfully undertaken three yearn ago; and a German physician, Dr. Chelius, from Heidelberg, has been summoned to Paris to take part in the deliberations of his French colleagues. Prince Napoleon, by his late speeches in the Senate, has once more attracted the general at tention. The English press, considering him as the most gifted of the Bonapartes to fill eventu ally the place of Lieutenancy, do not think that the Emperor can overlook him. Napoleon in his testament appoints the Empress ns Regent daring the minority of his heir; yet Eugenie once already, while the Emperor was visiting Algeria, has shown herself utterly incapable o!’ ruling a great empire. Moreover, whenever a woman was placed at the helm of state in France, the country was shaken by internal commotions, thus evidently demonstrating that the French object to being governed by a woman. And shonld the Empress, who is a faithful ally of the powers of darkness, really grasp the reins of government, the star of the Napoleonides will, perhaps, set more suddenly than it arose a cen tury ago. Gebmanx.—The approaching Roman Council still claims the public attention in Germany. The Berlin ‘Zeidlersche Corresponded’ states that “in case the majority of the proposed Council should pass resolutions endangering the peaceful relations existing between Church and State, the Government will probably feel itself obliged to submit to the Landtag legislative measures of a character fitted to meet the dan ger. Politics rest entirely. Rubenstein, the celebrated composer, has composed a cantata entitled “The Tower of Babel,” the text of which is by Julius Roden- bevg. It is to be performed for the first time in Konigsberg. The literary remains of Heinrich Heine, the lyric poec, with the exception of his memoirs, have at length come into the hands of Julius Campe, the Hamburg publisher. They contain ten sheets of unpublisbedpoems and a narrative in tho manner of Atta Troll Spain.—It is officially announced that the last Carlist band on Spanish soil, led by Estartus, has been dispersed near the city of Gerona. The chieftain escaped. For the reception of three hundred to four hundred Cariists who are as sembled in Perpignan, France, near the Franco, Spanish frontier, the authorities are duly pre pared. The project of prolonging Serrano’s regency for three years, find3 favor with all parties. A great many Cariists, profiting by the pro claimed amnesty, surrender to the Government. Queen Christine, an octogenarian and mother of Queen Isabelle, faithful to the traditions of her life, still delights in political intrigues. She has gone to Vichy, France, to win General Prim for the cause of her daughter. It has been proposed to reduce the Spanish hierarchy to five archbishops and thirty-two bishops. The Regent has issued a decree thanking the bishops who have complied with the edict re cently published against the disloyal priests. Ten of the militant bishops have been sum moned before the Supreme Court. The Contre-Admiral Casfo Mendez Nunez, who had returned in feeble health from his South American expedition, died forty-five years old, in Madrid. Having bombarded'Valparaiso and Callao, in the recent war against Chili and Pern, he enjoys a similar fame in Spain as Nel son in England and Van Tromp in Holland. Spain is united as to the defence of Cuba. All papers urge additional reinforcements to be sent to the Island to crush the rebellion. Italy.—The session of the Itlian Parliament was closed. It will probably be dissolved. The number of Bishops who have declined lhe Pope’s invitation to the Roman Council amonnts to abont 300. The Papal Government entertains apprehen sions that attempts will be made to set St. Pe ter’s Church, where the Council will be held, on fire. Two fire engines and fifteen firemen are, therefore,guarding inthe buildingdsy and night. Recruits for the Roman army are daily ar riving. In Pompeii a mural painting has been dis covered representing the Circus of Pompeii be fore the erection cf Vesuvius. As this is the first painting of this kind which has been dis covered under the ruins of the silent city, it forms a very valuable contribution for the his tory of that distant epoch. Austria.—A great festival was held in Brunn in memory of Joseph IL Above 25,000 people were present. Mr. Royce has been recbgnized as American Consul for Pragal, by the Government. The Americans are much pleased with this innova tion under the new System, as formerly only in the capital and seaports Consuls were admitted. The Austrian double-headed eagle has disap peared from the seas. The Austrian flag with the insignia of the “Holy Roman Empire” has given way to the new Austro-Hungarian ensign composed of the colors of the Archdukedom red and white, and those of St. Stephen’s crown, red, white and green, thus burying forever the last memento of the “Holy Roman German Empire" of a thousand years: Russia.—The attempts of employing naphta as fuel have at length proved successful. On the 31st of July a train arrived safely in Kutscbnjan, eighty-one versts from Charkoff, the engine of which was heated with raw naphta instead of coals. The honor of the invention is ascribed to the mining engineer,. Portzki. . A forester in the district of Jatnpol in the Russian Government of Padolia, has discovered a vein of silver; he believes that the whole country, as far as the district of Dryester in Bessarabia, abounds with copperand silver. The foundations for a magnificent synagogue, in the “Moresco style,” will shortly be laid in St Petersburg. .The costs are estimated at one million of silver roubles. Turkey.—It is reported that the Khedive has has left Alexandria for Constantinople to as sure the Grand Seignior of his undying alle giance. Various restrictions have been imposed upon Ismail Pasha, who, as it seems, was dreaming of re-establishing the ancient Empire of the Pliaraos on the Nile, where the towering pyr amids, defying the tooth of time, still challenge onr admiration for a people to which _ we trace the first germ of our present civilization, when Rome and Hellas had not yet risen from the chaos of savage tribes. Jaeno. No Mistake About Rawlins.—Among the last dying words of Secretary Rawlins were these: “Yes, I have something more to say. There is Cuba—poor, struggling Cuba. I want you (the members of the Cabinet and others around his bed) to stand by the Cubans. Cuba must be free. Her tyrannical enemy must be crushed. Cuba must not only be free, but all her sister islands. This Republic is responsi ble. I am passing away; but you mast look after this.” So spoke the dying patriot, and his words have the ring of the genuine silver. We believe, too, that he spoke the mind of General Grant; for it is impossible that the two men, so harmonious upon other questions, should be discordant upon this. We take the dying words of his confidential friend, Rawlins, as a foretaste of the West India policy of Gen. Grant—N. Y. Herald. During the gale at Boston, Mr. G. M. Clark was walking the street, when a furious gust of wind tore np the wooden sidewalk on which he was walking, and the timber was hnrled with such violence against his head that his skull was badly fractured, his lips severely cut and one of his arms broken. He died in a short time. A. J. White, Esq.—We learn, says the Consti tution, that A. J. White, Esq., President of the Macon and Western Railroad, has gone to New York after the iron for the Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. Rails are being laid at Griffin, and the iron purchased by Sir. White will complete tho track to Newnan. California wines, it is asserted, will now be more extensively used on the Atlantio coast and the States bordering on the Mississippi, since the freight from San Francisco has been reduced to $4 50 per hundred pounds, one-half the for mer charge, which was represented as being prohibitory of the trade. A cab containing eight hundred and twenty five cases of fruit, of which seven hundred and thirty-eight were filled with grapes, arrived in New York the other day from California. The grapes were entirely jolted to pieces by their seven days’ journey. The road from Chicago to New York was much rougher than that across the plains. Tbe Cot ton Crop of Last Year. The Charleston Cornier of the the 14th, has the following upon this interesting topic: The mail yesterday afternoon brought the New York Shipping List of Saturday, 11th inst.. containing its Annual Statement of the Cotton Crop for the same period which our Statement covers. The footing np of the Statement of the Shipping List makes the total crop 2,260,557 bales, which is 97,812 bales below our totaL The footing of the statement of the Shipping List was the subject of general comment yester day among cotton factors in their counting- rooms, and on the street, it being almost uni versally conceded that its total footing of the crop was too low. We will not undertake now to point out the seeming discrepancies, but will simply give the following totals, and leave the task of showing the errors, if any shonld exist, to other hands. The Shipping List gives as Total exports to foreign ports (less 2,975 bales Foreign cotton) 1,444,G68 Taken for home nse North of the Poto mac and Ohio Rivers 821,924 Taken for home use South of the Poto mac and Ohio Rivers, and burnt 173,203 The Crops in Houston County. t Empress Eugenie In Tairkey. Fobt Valley, September 13, 18G9. ' Magnificent preparations are betn£ made By EtUon Ttltgrapli: JU*.**..<*«, &2£fSSSSS«?Sa?3!ES& weeks, I resume my report of crops, etc., from j wb £ e Tm-lriah fleet (thirty war vessels) will this section. j await the august coyageur at Corfu. Roouf I am much gratified to be able to write favor- ! Pacha, grand masier of the palace, and Kiunil ably of our com crops. I, perliaps, hare never ruaft Ann nnfafn i»rnns o_ti m •«« * « • * seen them better. The pea and potato crops nre now wanting rain, which there is a prospect of having soon. As from almost every other section, we report a short crop of cotton; the result of hot and dry weather, together with some occult cause not Sultan.- The Empress will renounoe her. incog nito on her entrance into Turkish waters. The finishing touch is being put to the splendid caique in which Abdul Aziz will meet her majes ty and conduct her to the palaoe of Beyler Bey. A gala performance will be given at the opera, all hung with velvet'and silk for the oocasion; yet comprehended. Wo have had, it seems to ! the singers who are to have the honor of me, as warm and dry weather in former seasons ! ^pearmg witt arrive from London and Paris. ... ; | By the Saltan’s order, specimens of all the pro- ““ ° " ducts of the Empire are being collected at the bazaar. The Empress and her suit will only be perplexed by the difficulty of making a choice. The Imperial harem, conducted by the Sultana Valide, will pay a visit in great state to her Majesty. But what is to surpass all that fancy can imagine will be the soiree preceding the day of the Empress' departure. After a review in tbe plain of Belcos, and a luncheon, the bill of fare of which is a State business, the illustrious company will descend the Bosphorus to Beyler Bey. Nearly all the vessels that the Ottoman Empire can famish will be present to accompa ny the Imperial yacht, and the flags seen by day will be replaced by myriads of lights. The pal ace and the houses on both shores will be illu minated throughout the immense extent of the sea, and enormous fires will.be lighted on the mountains of Europe and Asia. The estimated cost of these enchantments is 15,000,000 francs. 2,439,793 Business Affairs in New York. The New York correspondent of the Charles- too Courier, writing on the 9th says: Business in New York York iust now is quite lively, especially the shipment of goods to the Southern ports. Most of this merchandize sent South is sold now on four months credit, and if the paper now received is promptly met in De cember and January next, our merchants will once more be happy at the restoration of sound commercial relations with the Southern States, especially as the West just now is not over sound, most of its merchants having over-traded during tho past three years, and finding themselves now in straightened circumstances. The excitement in the gold market continues with more or les3 interruption. The clique of whom I spoke in my last are said to hold now $25,000,000 of gold, and during ths past week they have been quite successful in driving up the premium. In this they continue to be assisted by the ominous ru mors from France and prospective complications with Spain in regard to Cuba. Most if nearly all the dealings in the gold room are gambling transactions, as will be seen by the sales daily recorded, more gold being often disposed of than can be found in the whole country. One hundred and ninety millions for instance was the total amount of sales made one day this week. Suppose this gold had to be actually de livered, where would it come from? So long, therefore, as people can speculate on what are called mere “margins,” so long it will be impos sible to fix any standard price for the precious metaL Life Insurance in Great Britain. There is something like a panic amongst the holders of insurance policies in England. The sudden fall of one of the largest of the compa nies and the terrible anxiety and distress it has occasioned, is one of the chief events of the dull season, and one natural result of the dis cussion is the quick growth of suspicion as to other societies. It is allowed that uulike most business, insurance may be reduced to a cer tainty and be so conducted that no accident within the calculation of ordinary business men can, by possibility, affect the solvency of the company. Yet here is a company in which 22,- 800 persons have invested the savings of a life for the protection of their wives and children, suspending payment! If many other companies follow in the same route, it will not surprise us if life insurance falls into the hands of the State. Already one authority—a little given tosenti- ment.it is true—exclaims, “Compulsory life in surance in proportion to income, guaranteed and controlled by the State—there one day will be found the substitute for all forms of direct taxation.” Ice Machine.—The Prussian journals state that an ice and cold-producing machine has been invented by M. Franz Windhausen, Brunswick. The action of the machine is based on the prin ciple of producing cold and warmth by the ex pansion and compression of atmospheric air, which is accomplished by means of mechanical power. The machines require no chemicals, nothing being used in them but water and at mospheric air. They may be wrought by steam, water or wind, and they produce from 100 to 1,000 pounds of ice per hour, according to size, at a cost of from 2d. to od. per 100 pounds; this difference resulting from the varying prices of fuel and the mode of working chosen. One of their uses is to cool rooms, cellars, theatres, hospitals, compartments of ships, etc. The Hide and Leather Business of Boston. About twenty millions of dollars are employed in the hide and leather business in Boston, and the sales last year amounted to some thirty-five millions. Over one hundred firm3 are engaged in the various branches of the business, and nearly one million of hides were received from foreign ports Salvator Patti, father of Madame Strakosch, Madame Adeline Patti-Caux and Mile. Carlotta Patti, died on the 20th of August in Paris. * The bronze statue of the Queen, intended for Montreal has arrived there, and the ceremony of unveiling will be^ performed by Prince Ar thur- .. . ' ' without the same results. On many plantations, two-thirds, in some, three-fourths of the cotton is open, and, could hands be procured, the crop would be gathered in four weeks. Some few planters who used fertilizers in tery large quan tities are making fair crops. Some persons are expressing doubts as to whether or not guano will pay the present year. My observations and experience leave no doubt on my mind on this snbject. I believe that bnt for the fertilizers used in this neighborhood, the average crop would have been forty per cent, less than it is. By some the “so-called” rust is attributed to the guano. Be this conjecture right or wrong, one thing is evident, those who used no fertilizers have made but very little cotton. I am unable to say much of the relative value of the different commercial fertilizers used in this neighborhood, but can and do, recommend “Zell's raw bone ammoniated bone Superphos phate of Lime,” as, in my judgement, (based on observation and experience,) inferior to none and I think all who have tried it, are well pleased, and will use it again, many extensively. This very valuable, and I think, reliable fertili zer, with other varieties, I learn will be constant ly kept on hand by Messrs. J. W. & B. R. Mathews, in this place, who are agents for its sale in this county. "With the fre e and judicious use of fertilizers deep, thorough preparation of our lands, and the exercise of common sense in the cultivation of crops, either deep, or oth erwise, as soil and season may dictate, we will soon be able to supply the great demand for our staple, or at least make as much cotton as will he most compatible with the best interests of the cotton grower, and that too, without foreign labor. I see the Chinese immigration question is causing considerable commotion in the public mind. I am aD old “Knownothing,” unrecon structed, and as such, can’t think it will be best to introduce into our country such an element. Better rely npon our own people, to cultivate our lands. I fear when the tide once sets in, the flood may become overwhelming, and like many other errors committed in the past, have to repent onr folly. And now, Messrs. Editors, permit me to say a few things politically. In your issue (Daily) of the 12th instant, you say “politics is dead.” In pace, quiescito. I see some of your professional brethren are indirectly intimating that the late ‘TressExcur sion” was gotten up for political effect—that those of the “Corps Editorial” who accompa nied that Excursion throughout were influenced by sinister or unworthy motives—rather conde scendingly conciliating the “powers that be,” etc. While I was not surprised at this from what I had seen in the past, I nevertheless re gretted it As is frequently said, “we live in a very selfish world,” and envy and jealousy will occasionally “crop out.” I am inclined to third: yonr readers generally were much interested with your correspondence daring said excursion; gratified at the harmony and general good feeling that prevailed, and believe that good will result Truly we have a country vast in its resources and elements of wealth. And finally, Messrs. Editors, let me say that when politics are resuscitated and the great opposition Conservative elements are or ganized for the next election, I hope and trust it will be under some other name. The prin ciples claimed as Democratic by you inthe issue of the lltb, are in the main those of nearly all true Southerners, and ever have been. But many, very many, don’t relish the name. Let us compromise. “Let U3 burv the dead.” ^ W. A. M. Letter from Cincinnati. COST OF LIVING—BASE BALL—MCSQUITOES, ETC. Cincinnati, September 10, 1869. Editors Telegraph : From the prairies of the far west, your correspondent has flown east ward, and now writes from one of the most picturesque spots in the States—perched npon a miniature mountain overlooking the city of Cincinnati and the charming valley of the Ohio. The hills around the city are fast becoming cov ered with beautiful suburban villas, and real es tate 18 increasing in value every day. Rents, however, in this city are far- cheaper than in Macon. Here you can obtain a very elegant six room dwelling with every convenience for from $35 to $40 per month. The markets too are abnndantly supplied, and it costs very little to fill a market basket. Tomatoes, for instance, are only fifteen cents per busheL Grapes are abundant and cheap. Peaches are in ample supply, and of very fine quality, surpassing in size and beauty anything produced around Ma con. I believe, however, as fine fruit may be made there if the people will only school them selves to a more thorough system of cultivation. By the way, I was visiting a friend of mine some day sago, who has a fruit farm on the Cincinnati Short-line Railroad, and among the boxes of fruit prepared for shipment I noticed several boxes of pears marked for Eufaula, Ala. Rather expensive pears, I should think, after an Ex press carriage of seven hundred miles. The Fire in the Dismal Swamp. The fire in the Dismal Swamp, noticed by tel egraph on September 4th, does not seem to abate. It has now got into the best timber. The fire commenced near Suffolk, and has burned & wide trade clear through to near, the northwest locks, a distance of nearly, twenty miles, and it is still going south. The ground, which is lined with peat for at least eight feet, is also being consumed, and the loss in timber will not fall far short of $200,000. One gentle man, arrived in Norfolk last week, hired all the able-bodied negroes that could be found, and took them out to his shingle swamp to save < what he had ready for market. He came in. for 1000 hands, and took out about four hundred. Wild game—bears, deer, and wild turkeys—are in abundance on the outskirts of the swamp, and are devastating the crops. The trains on the Petersburg road are delayed every evening by falling timber, which not only blocks up the track, bnt burns the ties and twists the rails. Last evening they had to take up the rails in rear of the train and pnt them in the places where the heat had warped those in,front of them. When the wind is west, steam and other vessels on the James river have to anchor on account of the impenetrable smoke with which they are enveloped. Hampton Roads, thefiay, and the Capes have been enveloped in fog caused by the smoke, and we learn that even the coast has received its share. Rain is needed to stop the fire, as nothing else will do it.—Norfolk Herald. • ' ~ v -J; Settino out Strawberry Beds.—Strawberry plants can now be set out front- the last of August to October. It is true August is gener ally a very warm and very dry month, bat in case of the absence of rain the newly planted beds must be watered every day or two until they become established. The bed should not be in a damp situation or the soil heavy. Dig deep, pulverize finely, and apply a pretty heavy dose of good barnyard ma nure. Let the divisions be about three and a half feet in width and as long as maybe desira ble. Set the plants about eighteen inches apart; insert them in the ground firmly but not deeply, and then keep clean cf all grass and weeds. As to the varieties, we would choose for onr planting the following: “Triumph,” “Russell,” and “Hovey,” and if we wished another, “Jn- cunda.” They should be planted in this, wise: In making np a full bed, with half a dozen or a dozen divisions: 1, Triumph; 2, Jncunda; 3, Hovey; 4, Russell. In this way a fine crop is assured with as much certainty as anything can be. The last of November, protect the plants with a light covering of straw the first year; after that, if needed, light manure may be sub stituted as a covering. A half crop may be expected the first season. A bit of straw, cut two or three inches long, will keep the ground moist and cool, which this berry likes, and smother the weeds. This should be applied the first part of April. An application of spenttan is also excellent. The Annual cotton Crop Statement. Prom the Charleston jYetM.J We received last evening the New.York Ship ping and Commercial List of Saturday, contain ing the full annual cotton crop statement, jthe grand total of which was given in in onr issue of yesterday. We subjoin the Shipping List’s estimate of the crop returns.in the. several cot ton producing States, as compared with the crop of the previous year in the same States: 1869. Louisiana 794,205 Alabama 230,726 Texas. 147,817 Florida 13,392 Georgia ‘.....-...307,253 South Carolina.. 193,943 North Carolina 35,912 Virginia 160,418 Tennessee, etc.' 321,891. 1868. 579,231 3G6,193 114,666 84,639 495,005 240,225 38,537 187,487 874,8G0 .2,430,893 Total .2,2C0,5o7 The Shipping List's estimate of ‘ the Northern consumption is 821,924 bales. The fact that the grand total of the crop for the year falls so far below what the shrewdest operators in the staple had anticipated, is accounted for by the small production credited to Tennessee, etc., which is pnt down at 321,S91 bales, while other well informed authorities had allowed from the same source as high as 403,311 bales. Messrs. Murray, Ferris & Co., of New .York, in their cotton circular of Saturday last, present the fol lowing interesting statement of the actual growth, together with an estimate of the commercial i crop, the total of which agrees with the figures given by the Shipping List: Yon have had an account of the terrible base ball excitement which occurred here some ten days ago. The game wa3 between the Red Stockings of Cincinnati, and the Haymakers, a visiting club—and closed at the fifth inning; score 17 to 17. ‘ At this time the Haymakers found fault with the umpire, and the game stopped amid immense excitement The Hay makers started for their Hotel in an omnibus, ; and were stoned by the mob. The Gibson Taken for home me North House, where they stopped, was thronged j of the Potomac and Ohio 821,924 crop or 18CS-’69i •, Bales. Exports to Great Britain.989,500 Exports to France 224,527 Other foreign ports. V 238,61C Deduct foreign cotton in cluded Bales. 1,447,643 ; ; 2,975 1,444,668 oS throughout the evening, and the excitement pre- Taken for home use South vailed everywhere. . j of the Potomac, and The rAeipts at the gate, which in this in- ham* ...ii-L-i-M stance amounted to $2,500, are usually divided c . . „ . * between the two dubs, but in this case the Red Stock m all United States ports Stockings held a meeting to decide if any of the August 31,180J.... gate money should go to the Haymakers. To make a long story snort, the Haymakers were shamefully treated; and I would guarantee them a different reception if they will visit Ma con faring the great Fair on the 15th of No- vem er next. This month is usually given to Fairs in this section, and a person may attend one almost Exports ......: 1,444,666 everyday. There seems to be more interest Consumed North......./. 821,924 and enthusiasm manifested this year than nsual. Consumed in Virginia, and the attendance at the county fairs, thus far, 20,000, and burnt 203 20,203 has been quite large. — "We are still troubled with musquitoes, whose Deduct decrease in stock......... existence,. “some one has said, is necessary to prevent uafroin too thoroughly enjoying the Total luxuries of this world.” j—■ mm — Rumdr says your New Ytirk correspondent jy Mississippi they call the Dent party Con- ha s arrived at the conclusion that single bless- federate Republicans. M .3_ 2- _.A 4a anmnlalA n Deduct stock in United States ports Septemper 1, 18GS Total growth COMMERCIAL CROP. ‘ . 995,127 11,160 2,450,955 37,398 2,413,557 21286,795 26,238 ,.2,260,557 edness is not just the thing to complete a man’s happiness, and has acted wisely by getting “spliced.” Is it true, Messrs. Editors? • Cobvus. A Maryland convict has fatten heir to $80, • 000, and can’t get out to spend it. A book will soon be published in Boston, de- ... • fending polygamy on moral, religious, social, The London Lancet complains that tight- physiological and political grounds. Iti* the lacing has again made its appearance. work of a clergyman, not a Moroaan. < I ** s’ ' -~! ! jo-swu 0s* nunaai- - • . ■* r.-?\ •» ;• • -. ••

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, September 17, 1869, Image 1