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VHVM Tlie Greoi*o-ia ^W^eekly Telegraph.. THE TELEGRAPH MACON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1869. Tfe* Troubles or Civil Disturbance.—The distress among the laborers in Spain, conse quent npon a prolonged period of civil yar and disturbance, is cansing troubles that aeriously interfere with the resumption of prosperity, and the happy inauguration of his reign for that Italian prinoeling, who, we are told, is soon to asshma Isabella’s forsaken coronet. The Barce Iona strike has beoome alarming. Other strikes were not so well sustained and have been put down. If this increases, they may revive, and the anarchy we all supposed to be avoided may crop out. It is safe to be prepared for any eventualities in Spain now. The Riviwtw River.—The Savannah River has only three feet six inches of water at Au gusta, and tho Constitutionalist says river trade between that city and Savannah has been sus pended. Tho steamers accustomed to ply be. tween these ports are unable to cross the seve ral bars in the river, to the great inconvenience of shippers, and to the manifest detriment of planters along the river. It is hoped that this may bo remedied by timely rains and a rise in the river, which, from present appearances, however, is not very promising. The Pennsylvania Election.—-The Washing ton specials to The IiOUISville Gani-ior-.Lmraol say that letters from Pennsylvania Democrats of prominence, express the greatest confidence in the election of Packer for Governor, on Oc tober 13th. Tho change in the local ticket in Philadelphia has added very materially to the strength of the Democratic ticket in the State. Forney says that unless the Republicans poll a full vote the State is lost. It is estimated that there are 5,000 disaffected Republicans who won’t vote for Geary. Chinese Immigration.—The Kentucky pa pers have published a letter from Hon. R. M. T. Hunter on Chinese immigration, written to a gentleman who had solicited his views on the subject. Mr. H. does not regard this class of population desirable in Virginia or Kentucky, but thinks it may be of great service in the cot ton, rice, and sugar States. He is of opinion that the question of whether the Chinese are to come will settle itself, under the great natural law of self-interest, irrespective of the views of politicians or the legislation of Congress. Death ov Northern Shipbuilding.—The New York Times records the somewhat startling fact that “at this moment but one new vessel is on the stocks” in the ship-yards of that city. This is the effect of Radical legislation. If the same party remains in power mnch longer, all the other interests of the country will be in a like dilapidated condition. Educational.—We are glad to see that that experienced and able instructor, Rev. W. C. Wilkes, with a very strong corps of assistants, is abont to take charge of Spalding Seminary, at Griffin. The fall term begins on Monday, the 4th day of October next, and we direct the at tention of parents and guardians to the adver tised announcement in another place. Kentucky has an easily-worked quarry.— Spontaneous blasts take place where no holes have been drilled and no powder used. The de tonation is very loud and the rocks are rent in a remarkable manner. So violent are these oc currences that workmen cannot be induced to work in the rock, which is a species of mar ble. Go it, Boston.—A recent Boston publication, based upon letters from several hnndred cotton planters, states that when labor is fully organ ized and the people cordially united in favor of the laws, that section can produce at least one hundred millions of bales of cotton annually. That must be a “big-organ”-ization of the labor here which will produce one hnndred millions of bales of cotton. Colonel Washington Poe.—We were pained to learn, yestesday, that this distinguished citi zen of Macon was dangerously ilL The reports from him at night, however, were more favor able, and we trust his useful and valuable life will be spared to his family and the community. The result of the California election so far shows forty-eight Democrats and three Radicals are elected to the Assembly, with twelve Demo crats Senators; Radicals four or five. The Democratic popular majority will be about twelvo thousand. The next United States Sen ator from California will, is is thought, be a Democrat. Col. Hulbert's Speech.—The Intelligencer of yesterday contains; an. authorized report of Colonel HulbCrt’s speech, delivered- before the Georgia Press, on the steamer Etowah, upon the condition and prospects of the State Road. We will make room for it to to-morrow. Homage Co Material Greatness. The Israelites who worshipped the golden calf in the wilderness were neither the first nor last people guilty of that weakness. The homage paid to mere material success and greatness is universal and no people are superior to it. We in the South are just now beginning to profit by it. Tell ns, gentle reader, why it is that of a sadden the bloody catalogue'of rebel outrages npon the poor defenceless freedmen has been cnt short. "How is it that the “ sensibilities of the nation” are not now regularly shocked every morning before breakfast with the horrid story of some Sambo flayed alive and murdered by the barbarous rebels? Some will perhaps say that it is because no elections are pending and nothing is to be gained by it. But important State elections are pend ing, and, besides, our own experience since the dose of the war should teach, that this kind of labor in the interests of Radicalism never slum bered because no elections were pending. It was, in fact, most incessant daring tho sessions of Congress and in the winter when the party accumulated its magazine of destrnefive mis siles, and inflamed the whole mass of sectional animosities and hatreds to tell on the popular ballot whenever voting day rolled round. We think the South, just now, owes her bliss ful exemption from systematic and persistent slander merely to the common opinion that she is getting rich again. The Northern papers are contributing to create this impression with sin gular industry. They tell ns onr trade is far more valuable than that of the "West—that it la represented in their marts by men with ready money—that our crops all told this year will be worth six hundred and fifty million dollars to the country—and, in short, from being as we were abont four years ago, out at the elbows, empty- pocketed, the rueful representatives of long un settled accounts and notes of hand past due which it was highly desirable to compound with new paper at ten cents on the dollar, we are get ting to be fat, sleek, and “ responsible." It is not easy to believe stories to the discredit of “good customers,” and the office of tale bearer has become unwelcome, and unpopular. That’s it The poor man had no friends in conrt or at market. Bnt when he comes in all the importance of ready cash and undoubted “ responsibility,” he is a welcome guest, and no man helps himself by speaking evil of him. Consequently, the practice is discontinued. The tales of frightful outrages upon tho freed men are received as coldly and incredulously as was old Titus Oates’ testimony when the “plaat” had played out The outrage plot has been smothered and stifled with cotton and tobacco, and our Northern friends begin to see that “there mnst bo some mistake about tbese things.” They will swear it when a Southern man squares his accounts, sends in now orders, and assures his respected correspondents that “these stories are all mere stuff—got np for po litical purposes.” At all events, the outrage mill has stopped. Now and then, may be, the crazy concern at tempts a feeble and hesitating revolution; but it is rusty and out of gear—it shrieks and groans in the last stages of debility. Its work is done— it is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men. A Third Party in Massachusetts.—A call is issued for the Massachusetts Labor Reform State Convention in Boston on the 28th inst., to nominate a State ticket. All legal voters with out regard to past party affiliations, who are in favor of forming an independent political party, to be known as the Labor Reform Party, are invited to send delegates. OnEat A Time.—Forney’s Philadelphia Press, of the 20th, launches five columns of thunder bolts at the head of Great Britain. Suppose Forney waits till Spain gets cool. One at a time. Forney gays the Hon. Columbus Delano, “a most efficient revenue officer,” will take part in the Pennsylvania campaign. Is he going to col lect reVenne in his travels ? ' ‘ ‘ i - '• LaborerstorLouibiania.—'The Constitutional. 1st says Mr* T. McDonald, passed through An- gusto. Tuesday afternoon, with seventy-six able- bodied hands, secured around Wilmington, North Carolina, for the planters of Louisiana. The Manchester (N.H.) Union says: “Mas sachusetts feels better. General Lee was very courteously invited .to attend the 234th annual gathering at 8t lisbury Beach, which invitation he as’conrteonsly decline A” The Cartersville Express says an interesting revival is going on in that city, resulting in some thirty conversions and additions to the Methodist and Baptist Churches. TH»"Florida Radicals are to hold a State Con vention in Tallahassee on the 27th of October next. , M t»/x3>'o> »i Mas. Bailey's popular school in Maeonj : opens on Monday, the 4th proximo. She has a rare repntation as a teacher and deserves it. Work on the New York post-office foundations is going on rapidly. In the day time three' hun dred and fifty men and one hnndred and seventy carts are employed. At night the place is illu minated by three calcium lights, and abont one- hair us targe a force of men and carts are em ployed as during the day. Advertisements are out for a large increase of the force. Hoisting engines Are now in use, and will greatly facili tate operations. A considerable part of one side of the foundation has already beep laid. Uotae Rain.—Another fine shower fell yesterday afternoon about 8 v. M. From the appearance of the clouds and tone of the atmosphere, we incline to the opinion that we shall have an abundance of rate before the weather changes. The Money Panic. At least every six months since the war, a ru inous financial revulsion has been promised or predicted for the benefitof the “nation,” and abont as often, we have taken occasion to say that we cannot comprehend how, under present circumstances, doing business as we are npon a confessedly irredeemable paper currency, it is possible that one of those old-fashioned finan cial hurricanes can occur, which used to sweep over the country and involve everything in a general collapse and insolvency. Last summer a collapse was confidently pre dicted this fall; bnt we don’t see it, although some of the New York papers charge that delib erate efforts are being made to create a panic. It is possible, that, under the manipulations of the Wall street financiers, who combine in ef forts to produce alternate glnts and famines of the money market, in ordertobattenonthe car casses of the poor little fish who are left high and dry by the sudden flux and still more rapid subsidence—we say it is possible that serious disorders in the course of trade may be pro duced; but they cannot reproduce tho almost universal insolvency of 1837 and 1857. And why? Simply because there is no pay day. When banks were liable to meet their notes in specie on demand, a panic produced universal demand and the demand resulted in suspension and the sadden retirement of every dollar of specie and paper which the moneyed power of the country could clutch. Then uni versal stagnation, non-payment and rnin became inevitable. Bnt it is perhaps the solitary merit of onr currency, in respect to snch a disaster, that it is already insolvent. We are, in regard to that, just where we would be after a univer sal collapse had produced universal suspension of specie payments. We are running perma nently on a post-collapse schedule’, and it is as useless to predict a collapse os it is to tell a man pverbpard that he is going to be wet. We are liable to fluctuations in trade proceed ing from many natural as well as artificial causes. Our markets both of money and pro duce are becoming more and more tho sport cf great scoundrelly financiers, who operate on the principle of the Bamegat wreckers. - Individual and local and general embarrassments will,from time to time, occur, but until pay day comes— until we trade upon a specie basis, we need look for no such convulsions as this country has passed through in former years, simply because they are impossible in the nature of the situa tion. Tho Fifteenth Amendment. A Washington letter to the Baltimore Gazette says: “The Radicals are despairing of the Fif teenth Amendment. Govenor Senter’s organ, the Nashville Press and Times, is out in a double leaded leader predicting that the sew Legislature will repeal Tennessee’^ ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. Before the final ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States by the required three- fourths, any State, which has passed a ratifica tion ordinance, may rightfully repeal it. This doctrine was broadly stated in the Senate in 18G7, by Hon.. Reverdy Johnson, and its correct ness not denied by a single Radical Senator.— The only point made was, that after an amend ment had been legally declared adopted, a State could not reverse its action. Doubtless, when ever the country shall be restored to the sway of the Constitution, the Fourteenth Amend ment (so-called) will be ignored together with all the reconstruction laws of Congress. This certain result is the only guarantee of the politi cal liberties of the South—and, indeed, of the country at large. St. Louis Fair.—Upon the application of the officers of the St Louis Agricultural and Me chanical Association, Mr. E. B. Walker, Master of Transportation on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, publishes the following proposition : Return Tickets over this road, will be sold for one fare to persons wishing to attend the St. Louis Fair. Cotton accompanied by a sworn affidavit that it will be exhibited at the St. Louis Fair of 4th proximo, will be transported free over this road —one bale to each different shipper. E. B. Walker, M. T. iN Cork,. the crier of the court, anxious to disperse the crowd around the bar, exclaimed : “All ye blackguards that isn’t lawyers, quit the » court 1” ■ • Breeching Broke. Oar yesterday’s dispatches noted a heavy flur ry in the New‘York gold market,'said to be growing out of warlike rumors and tbe efforts of clique operations. Gold rose during the 22d from 1374 to!4l J-,and closed active and strong, an immense business having been done. Yes terday, at the morning board, it closed at 143J, and there we leave it editorially. The rise since the 13th has boen a little short of eight cents, and we'doubt whether there hasbeenany better cause for it than the stupid diplomacy of Gen. Sickles, the American Minister of Madrid. The official organs tell ns that Gen. Siokles is unaccustomed to weigh words with diplomatic nicety, and he has written something, we know not what, which has so stirred the choler of the invincible Spanish nation, that all the Dons are clamoring for war. Well, we trust the American Government will not needlessly go to war with so weak a foeman as Spain, and we see that Sumner, who carries the thunderbolts in his snuff-box, delivered a very forbearing and pacifio speech yesterday at Worcester on the occasion of the meeting of the Massachusetts Radical Convention. He is not at all belligerent with Spain, and for once ho is right It would be no credit for this Govern ment to get into a war with Spain. Meanwhile, let the Dons rip and the New York Gold market recover its equanimity. Synopsis of vlte IT. S. Internal Reve nue Prepared for the Macon TEi.Fr.RAvn. Every change of firm whereby a former part ner retires from the same, or a new partner is admitted, constitntes, in contemplation of law, a new firm, liable to new license for the unex pired portion of the year for which the same has been paid by the original firm which should be assessed from the first day of the month in which the change occurs. There is no provision in the law by which a. person retiring from business daring the year for which he has paid the tax can transfer Lis license to the person succeeding him. In the case of manufacturers, dealers, apoth ecaries, confectioners, batchers, keepers of eat ing houses, hotels, inns or taverns, who have paid license as snch, if at the time of change of firm the sales, products or gross receipts, as the case may be, have not exceeded $1,000, the tax will be refunded upon application made in proper form. Every person who buys and sells, or who buys on commission cotton, wool, or any other agri cultural or farm products, shall be liable to li cense as a produce broker, without reference to the fact they may be employed by others and acting for them. When a person has paid tax as a wholesale and retail liquor dealer both, he can sell in any quantity; but sales of five gallons or more are to be regarded as sales of the wholesale dealer, and sales of quantities less than five gallons as sales of the retail dealer. Insurance agents cannot do business as a firm when the individual members thereof negotiate insurance, solicit risk, or in any other manner act os insurance agents at the same time; each member of such firm must make application for license. If a clerk or other employee of an insurance agent solicits bids, negotiates insurance, or in any other manner acts as an insurance agent for snch agent, he shall be liable to the tax as insurance agent. Jno. J. Newton, Ass't Ass’r, 1st Div., 2d Dish, Ga. The New York Times on Brunswick. From the Timer of the 18?A.] Attention has recently been directed, and not for the first time, to the city and harbor of Brunswick, Ga., as a point of first importance on the Atlantic coast, in view of its new railway connections, since the war, with the interior of Georgia and Alabama. As long ago as 1836 the United States Government surveys’ along the Atlantic coast of the Carolines, Georgia and Florida established the fact that po snch harbor as Brunswick, for depth of water, safety of an chorage, and salubrity of climate, conld be found from Cape Hatteras to the uttermost coast of Florida. Looking back to the first settlement of Georgia under General Oglethorpe, almost contemporaneous with the colonial grants of the two Carolinas, the surprise is that Wilmington and Charleston and Savannah should have then attracted the attention of commerce along the Atlantic coast to the neglect of a harbor superi or in its essentials for shipping and more di rectly on the sea than either or all of them. It may be said in explanation that these locations were selected because they were either upon or at the mouth of considerable rivers, running from the interior of the colonies to the sea, the consideration of the depth and safety of harbor to foreign shipping being overlooked or deemed of secondary importance, when the depth of water was ample for the class of vessels then trading between the mother country and her colonies. Nor is it surprising that, for 50 or CO years after the independence of these colonies of Great Britain was declared and established, the Cape Fear to Wilmington,and Cooperand Ashley to Charleston, and the SavannahRiver to Savan nah, should have been deemed important to these locations. Railways were either wholly unknown or in their earliest infancy, after steam or other navigation was established. The very idea that depth of water should suggest it self, or that the bars and the inlets at the month of the Cape Fear, or the bar and shoal water of Charleston, or the natural obstructions to naviga tion below Savannah, never occnred to the pub lic of the Carolinas and Georgia in connection with the importance of deeper harbors, until the General Government ordered the survey refer red to in 1836, when onr great railway system and its connection with the seaboard were at tracting especial interest in the Southern States. This movement had been anticipated by Geor gia and South Carolina. They had made liberal appropriations and pat in active force their railway project for the benefit of’ Charleston and Augusta on the one hand, and Savannah on the other. And although the result'of the sur vey was, as we have stated, in.favor of Bruns wick as by all odds the very best harbor on the coast, the Savannah and Angusta influence was too powerful in Georgia to suffer either aid or attonton to .be directed to-it. Of late years, the. Georgia State policy has undergone a sensible change. Before the war, certain New York capitalists took hold of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, in connection with their interest in-Brunswick city property. They expended several millions npon it, and were in a fair way to make the work complete to the intersection of the projected Florida Road, when the rebellion broke out Everything they had done, including the road, its equipment, etc., were swept away by the war; The rails were taken up; the rails arriving at Brunswick in 18G1 were seized; the equipment run off, and a general sequestration consummated by the so- called Confederate authorities, the State of Georgia being a party to the spoliation and con version of this property. Since the war, the wrong has been aoknowledgedby the Legislature of Georgia. Abont three and a half millions are acknowledged to be due to the Savannah and Albany Road; the importance of the repair and revived of the road recognized, and its extension to the State line of Alabama, or the means of snch extension, guaranteed. The line is direct to Eufaula, on the border of Alabama, and thence to Montgomery and Vicksburg. Fifteen thousand. dollars per mile, State indorsement, on six per cent, bonds, principal and interest payable .in gold, on 237 miles, is secured, the State acting as trustee to the general mortgage, and pledging the punctual payment of interest as well as the reimbursement of the prinoipal at the end of forty years. . Nor is this all that Georgia has done, or pro poses to have done, for Brunswick. State aid has also been granted to the Macon and Brnns- wick Road—a line by all odds the shorter and more direct communication as between Macon, Atlanta and Chattanooga, and the entire centre of the State and the sea-coast than the Macon and Savannah Road. A reference to any rail way map will confirm this fact. This road has also been taken in hand by New York capital ists, and will soon be completed. It will har monize with the Brunswick and Albany, and will assuredly be completed in all the present year. Both lines pierce the very.richeat cotton regions of Georgia; both will contribute to the prosperity of the city of Brunswick, and will to gether tend to establish at no distant'day the Bnpremaey of that point as - the most eligible exporting mart for the Southern and South western States Bonth of Norfolk, Ya. We little understand the changes that the in troduction of woman’s rights will be sure to bring abont in.every sphere of social life. For instance, at a wedding in Iowa last week, the clergyman who performed the ceremony and at tested the aanotionof the church npon the nup tials was a lady. After the happy'pair were duly, made one, the minister kissed the bridegroom! He blushed and meekly snmmitted. Northern Intolerance vs. Northern j Professions. Rev. Db. Burrows Abroad—Religious In tolerance in New York.—It is known to many of our readers that the esteemed Pastor of the First Baptist Church of this oily is visiting some friends at the North. The following extract from the Albany Argus will giro his friends here an idea of how he is received by persons whose religion will not stand before political prejudice, while' it also" affords pleasing evidence that all in that section are not such bigoted fools. The Argus says: 3^/:" “Rev. J. Lansing Barrows, D. D., a native of this city, and a gentleman who was introduced into the ministry in connection with the Pearl street Baptist Church in Richmond, has been on a visit to this city. He is pastor of the First Baptist Chnrch in Richmond, Va., where he has been settled for fifteen years, and, of course, daring the war sympathized with his. people; and for anght we know, may have taken an ac tive part in behalf of the South, as other Bap tist ministers in the North may have taken in favor of the'Union. On Saturday morning two of the Baptist pastors of Albany called upon and cordially invited Dr. Barrows to preach in their pulpits. As he had been'accustomed to do on visits here previous to the war, he consented, and of course expected to preach. “When it became known to some of the con gregations that this invitation had been given and accepted, so much excitement and opposi tion was manifested—some of the trustees threatening to have the churches closed—that the pastors f jit compelled to inform Dr. Bur rows, who, of course, promptly declined to offi ciate. An invitation was tendered him to preach in one of the Presbyterian churches, but under the circumstances he thought it proper to de cline. Unless there are' circumstances attend ing this case beyond owyknowledge, all fair- minded people will regard this exhibition of in tolerance as a disgrace to onr city. Wo had hoped that the time had passed away when men were to be excluded from society, or from reli gious intercourse especially, because they hap pened to hail from those States which joined in the rebellion. ‘Peace’ has been the magnetic word with politicians; it is strange that it should not be equally potent with religious or ganizations." Recently, while a reverend gentleman, for merly pastor of a church in Philadelphia, who belongs to a missionary organization known to be avowedly hostile to all Southern institutions, was attending a meeting in Richmond, he was invited by Dr. B. to preach in his church on Snnday morning. So much for sectional preju dice—North and South.—Richmond.Dispaclu The Western Union Telegraph Com* pnny. We clip the following from an article in the New York Times of the 20th, npon Telegraph- ingin the United States: The capital of this Company at its organiza tion in 1851 was $3G0,000. Last July it paid a dividend on stock representing $40,568,300. Its gross receipts sinco the 1st of January have averaged six hnndred thousand dollars a month; its expenses abont three hundred and seventy- five thousand, and its nets profits a little over two hnndred and ten thousand. The net earnings of the Company for the past three years have been $8,161,645 50, or at the rate of $2,720,548 50 per annum, which is over six and a half per cent, npon the capital. The cost of its lines has varied, according to the location and circumstances under which they were bnilt, from $150 to $1,000 per mile— the lines along all the important routes having from three to ten wires each. Estimating them to average $400 per mile of poles and wires, the value of the property would be as follows: 53.099 miles of line ..$20,839,000 103 miles of submarine cable 618,000 Offico furniture and fixtures 169,600 Machinery, tools and stationery 600,000 Productive stock in other telegraph com panies . -I 53,261 Real estate 132,758 Total $22,412,619 The total number of messages sent over the lines of this company during the year ending June 30, 1867, were 10,067,768, exclusive of rail way messages, of which there are many millions annually, and at an average cost of 57 cents. It is a remarkable fact that the messages of this company number full two-thirds as many as the messages sent over all the lines of Europe, at an average cost of 8I§ cents. The Press is naturally one of the best cus tomers of the telegraph. The aggregate amount of (news delivered to the newspapers of the United States by the lines of this Company dur ing the past year was 369,503,630 words, for which it received $883,509, being at the rate of two and three-tenths mills per word. This im mense amount of matter was not transmitted to each paper separately, bnt, through a combina tion of wires only possible to a vast system like this, was sent to a large number of places sim ultaneously with only one transmission. It is a fact worthy of remark that the amount of news which this Company delivered to the Press of the United States daring the year 1868 for na aggregate sum of $883,509, in currency, large ly exceeded the entire telegraphic correspon dence of continental Europe, for which there was paid $7,837,238 in gold. Mr. Orton presents a number of practical questions connected with the future of the tele, graphic service in this country, and brings to their discussion much valuable information- He is averse to the establishment of rival lines by the Government, considering that if Govern ment goes into the business, private lines should cease. “While I believe," he says, “that the telegraph can be more satisfactorily and econo mically conducted under private than pub lic control, and that its assumption by our Government would be a mistake, still what I have so strenuously opposed is not the pur chase of existing lines, for the- purpose of establishing a national system, as has been done by England and other European countries, bnt the unjnstproposition for the Gov ernment to build rival lines and engage in the telegraph business as a competitor. - Upon these points I coincide with the views expressed by the Committeo on Post-offices and Post-roads, that “two systems of telegraphs, one pnblio and one private, cannot operate side by side with success to either or with benefit to the. public. The functions of the Government are neccessarily exclusive, and whenever it formally undertakes any service as proper to be exercised by it, pri vate parties mnst be excluded from the perform ance of the same service.” < The Swiss (Colonists in Tennessee. From the J&aihvillc Press and Times, Sept. 1C.] Yesterday morning we received a call from Mr. John Hitz, the Consul-General of Switzer land, who left Washington some days since to visit the new Swiss settlement in Grundy ootrn- ty, which covers a tract of 9,090 acres of land. The Consul is well pleased with the progress of the colonists and their general condition. The land on which they are located is good and well timbered, producing an abundant growth of yellow pine, holly, laurel and other wood, which the Swiss carvers delight to work np into toys and useful domestio implements. Some of the colonists are in easy circumstances, and will go liberally into stock-raising and grape-growing. They are much pleased with the • climate and romanlio landscape around them, which is in many respects a reproduction of the sylvan and monntain scenery of their native land. Tho land was bought for fifty cents an acre, and is within twelve miles of Tracy City. Of coarse they have access to coal and water enough to turn au the machinery that will be wanted in this State for fifty years to come. The Consul does not think it advisable to r 'le the colonists in large bodies, as that wonlu _,nd to cultivate a spirit of clannishness among them, and prevent them from becoming assimuated to the people of 1 the States, whi6h he' regards as essential to their welfare. One fact we regard as deserving spe cial consideration; the colonists set apart two days in each week to working on the main road through their settlement. The road is in charge of a regular engineer. If proper means were used ten thousand of these thrifty, ingenious, peaceable people conld be settled on the cheap lands oh the Nashville and Northwestern Rail road in the next twelve months. Bat the land will probably lie idle, wild and unproductive, for want of tact rind enterprise in bringing it into market. . ‘ Paper petticoats having come into fashion, the following advertisement thereof appears in England: “ Madame Peroale begs leave to call the attention of ladies abont to visit the seaside to her new and richly embroidered paper petti coats, at one shilling each. Each petticoat con tains an instalment of a new novel of great do mestic interest, by Anthony Trollope, entitled ‘ Tucks or Frills.’ The story will be complete in fifty weekly petticoats.” Sir Samuel Baker’s expedition to the sources of the Nile, it is annocnoed, started on August 18th. The army of exploration consists of 1700 men ; tbe baggage, stores and merchan dise to be used in the trade with the natives hhve been sent on in advance. Sir Samuel Ba ker, with his personal and Lady Baker, were to leave in « few days. Important Evidence In the Byron Case. From the N. Y. Tribune of the 2Qthi} Lady Anne Barnard, whose contribution to the history of Lord Byron’s life we publish this morning, will be remembered in literary history as the author of the beautiful song of “Auld Robin Gray," and the friend of Scott, Burke, Dundas, and many others of the famous people of the close of the last and the beginning of the present oentury. She was a daughter of James Lindsay, fifth Earl of Bolcarres. The Lord f.indHay xghnm we nra indebted forthe pub lication of Ber interesting memorandum is the present heir to the earldom, and is an author of some repute, having published “Lives of the Lindsays,” a volume of letters from the East, and a work on Christian Art._ Lady Anne's narrative, written some time be fore' 1825, and Lady Byron’s letter, written in 1818, together throw more discredit upon Mrs. Stowe’s account than anything else that has been provokedby this interminable controversy. In the confidential intercourse of intimate friendship Lady Byron told Lady Anne Barnard the miserable story of her short married life. There was no bint of the crime whioh was re vealed to Mrs. Stowe, bnt there.was a narrative of heartless abuse and hypocrisy hardly less horrible, in so far as cold and calculating wick edness is more repulsive than the sins of un governed passion. ‘.'It is not necessary,” wrote Lady Byron, “to speak ill of his heart in' gen eral; it is sufficient to me that it was hard and impenetrable. * * ' * It is n °t my duty to give way to hopeless and wholly unrequited af fection ; but so long as I live, my chief straggle will probably be not to remember him too kind ly.” It is difficult to reconcile such language with a belief that the cause of the separation was what Mrs. Stowe asserts. Itis still more difficult to understand how Lady Byron, if she believed her husband guilty of the offence with which he stands' charged, conld write as she did to Lady Anne, “I had heard he was the best of brothers, the most generous of friends, and I thought such feelings only required to be warmed and cher ished into more diffusive benevolence.” Still more important, however, are two other state ments made by Lady Anne Barnard on Lady Byron’s authority. The first is that when Byron tried to corrupt his wife’s principles, both with respect to her own conduct and her latitude for his, “she saw the precipice on which she stood, and kept his sister with her as much as possi ble." The other is an aocount of Byron’s re- turn one night from a haunt of license, when, overcome by his wife's indicant manner, “he called himself a monster, though his sister was present,” threw himself at Lady Byron’s feet, and after obtaining her forgiveness laughed in her face, and told her he only wished to try the .value of her resolutions. Snch a scene as this could hardlyhave occurred in Mrs. Leigh’s presence if the incestuous connection actually existed, nor is it easily conceivable how Lady Byron conld have spoken as she does here of a woman from whom she had suffered such enor mous wrongs. It will hardly be safe to pronounce this a complete refutation of Mrs; Stowe, because it is possible to explain all the circumstances brought forward in Lord Lindsay’s communica tion by Lady Byron’s anxiety to keep the dread ful secret and tell no more of the reasons for the separation than were necessary to justify herself in the opinions of her friends. “I trust you understand my wishes,” she writes, “which were never to injnre Lord Byron in any way, for though he would not suffer me to remain his wife, he cannot prevent me from continuing his friend. I do not seek the sympathy of the world, bnt I wish to be known by those whose opinion is valuable and whose kindness is dear tome. We must remember, also, that Mrs. Stowe has not yet pnt in her evidence, but only filed the indictment, and rebuttal at present is not in order. If she had presented her extraor dinary charges with a decent regard for literary and personal proprieties, she might have saved herself from a great deal of reproach, and spared ns much unnecessary controversy. We can only hope that she will repair her mistake without any further delay. Lord Lindsay has placed her in a position where sbe.can no longer keep silence without grave injury to her repntation. From Terrell County. Weather—Still dry and very warm. Just suited to the planter that has cotton in.the field ready for picking, bnt death on sugar cane, po tatoes, peas, turnips and gardens. The prospect for greens, of any kind, is slim indeed. Im possible to get tnrnip seed to come np, and the collard leaves have the appearance of having been prepared by the doctors for the purpose of dressing blisters., Cotton Picking.—One month, more of favor able weather and tho cotton crop will be gather ed, excepting an occasional field that is making a top crop. We notice in our travels over this and Calhoun county, that fully two-thirds of the cotton is now open, and if we escape the Sep tember storm the crop will be gathered in good order.;—Dawson Journal, 23d. The Shurman Trial.—A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia Press of the 20th says: . In the Criminal Conrt, to-day, the trial of Shuman (colored), on the charge of abstracting unsigned notes from the Treasury, was contin ued. Experts testified to the similarity between the writing of the signatures and the handwrit ing of the accused. At this point the defence moved a discharge, on. the ground thnfc the in dictment was defective, and after argument, the Judge announced that he would render his deci sion on Monday. _ The Charleston and Savannah Road.—The Charleston News says the contractors npon this Railroad have undertaken to complete it by the first of December next. The News says: The brig’ Bradshaw, which arrived here on Monday, brought a large consignment of rail- road iron for the traok, and. we learn that a sup ply-amply sufficient to complete the road has been ordered to be shipped to Charleston and Savannah. . A locomotive and construction train has been dispatched to the Savannah end of the line via Augusts, and the work of reconstruc tion will now bo energetically pressed forward at both ends of the gap. Good:—At the dinner table at Patona, Ala., a gentleman of the press, distinguished for his ur banity and amiability, having sampled a bottle of Scotch ale, recommended it very highly to the learned and pious Doctor Blank, who is also distinguished for politeness. t‘,This,” said the learned Doctor, (holding up a tumbler of bright, clear water,) “is the best ale in the world.!’ “Very good,” responded Col. O., “ iar the pur poses of navigation, but, as a beverage, I never hanker after it.” Of course this brought down the house.—Athens Southern Watchman. A richly dressed xouNO lady, evidently of Spanish extraction, entered a dentist’s office in Virginia City, Nevada, a few days ago, and wished the doctor good morning in very broken English. It was with difficulty that Dr. 0. found what she wanted, bnt at last be learned that she desired her teeth filled. She was seated in the operating chair, and parting a pair of rich and tempting lips, disclosed two rows of ivory-white and glistening teeth. Probes, punches, hooks and files oame into play, bnt a minute search failed to disclose.even a speck of decay. The doctor couldn’t understand it, and told her that she had no tooth which re quired filling,, and none to be extracted. She couldn't understand mnch English, and the doc tor don’t speak Spanish, and so the conversa tion grew lively by signs alone. Again did he search, but with no better success; At last she rushed from the office.. In a few moments she returned, bringing a lady whose teeth glistened with gold which, the .doctor had inserted, and then toe doctor Understood that she wished him to bore holes in her teeth and fill them with gold, so she, too, could be in fashion. Of course the doctor declined the job, and she left very indignant at his obstinacy. M. Lieu retch has written to the French Acad emy about a new anesthetic discovered by him self. He calls it chloral. It is to be adminis- istered by absorption rather than inhalation, which enables the doses to be measured with greater accuracy. The insensibility produced is said to be more oomplate than that caused by any other snhstanco, toe use of it is unattended by any danger, and a woman was lately kept under its influence during a protracted surgical operation. : * ■ 1 l ,, iv : ■}-• Some Irish statistics are interesting. The acres under cultivation have increased by 27,000 during the past year, and the amount of live stock, which has been steadily diminishing of late years, now shows a reaction. Emigration shows an increase of only 2639 persons, the total number for toe past year being 45,846. There are 80,000 inhabited houses in Ireland with only one room, and in these live more than half a million persons. A card was hung out of a dirty little oyster shop in Sandusky City,' while the State Sabbath School Convention was in session in that place, whioh read:' “Oisters in every stile, coked to order. Friends of the' redemer will please oauL" . r 'BrST TELEGRAPH. From Washington. Washington, September 23.—Under the caption of “Minister Sickles Sustained by the Administra tion” the Chronicle says with double leads: “Those officers of the Cabinet who have uttered an opinion on tho question, say that there is noth ing in the communication from Minister Sickles to the Spanish Government to justify the alarm that the imperfect disclosures of its content? hare created.” 'And concludes, “Secretary Fisn declines to make the note of Minister Sickles public for pru dential reasons ; but it is regarded as safe to say that there will be no such thing done as hacking down. It is safe to reiterate that the State Depart ment apprehends no warlike results, and will favor the tender. Onr good offices having been thankful ly declined by Spain, masterly inactivity will follow. Sickles’ injudicious use of words alone is supposed to have caused too hubbnb. The text of Sickles’ note is not yet received. Revenue receipts to-day $357,000. L. F. Ward has been appointed'special agent at large for the Post-office Department. The Supreme Court meets on the first of October. Mrs. Lucy Moorehead Porter has been appointed Post-mistress at Louisville. Judge Chase is here. The Sabine was at Lisbon, September 4th. Shnerman, charged while messenger of toe Treas ury, with taking national notes and forging signa tures, and in whose transactions, Turner, ex-Post- master of Macon, has been mentioned, was found guilty. There were three negroes on the jury. From Virginia. Richmond, September 23.—It. T. Daniel, Chair man of tho Conservative State Central Committee, publishes a card this morning, stating that there is not even the color of truth in the newspaper state ment, that Gen. Canby ever intimated that the test oath would not be required, if he, Canby, could be made Senator. _ _ General News. Worcester, Mass., September 23—Sumner, in addressing the Convention regarding Spain and Cuba said the policy of the United States should be strict non-intervention except in toe way of good offices. Augusta, September 23.—A difficulty occurred in Columbia, on Sunday, between a planter named Baker and a party of negroes, in which Wm. Jones (negro) was killed. The published account repre sents Baker as having acted in self-defence. Omaha, September 23.—Reports from Fort Buford represent toe Indians as hostile and in large num bers. Their outrages continue in Montana. Philadelphia, September 23.—Capt. Leonard, toe famous counterfeiter, has been arrested. A large amount of well executod bills were found on his person and premises. St. Louis, September 23.—Gen. Sheridan and Senator Thnrman, of Ohio, with party, are here, en route for Yera Cruz. Foreign News. Madrid, September 23.—Pierrod has fled from Tanagla. Serrano has gone to the Alhambra Baths. Prim has retamed and a Cabinet Council has re solved to use every effort to save Cuba. Paris. September 24.—The papers attach great importance to Father Hyacinthis’ letter. Burlingame’s embassy and the French Ministry have arranged for improved relations between China and France, on a basis of mutual conciliations. London, Ontario, September 23.—At an immense celebration in'honor of Prince Author, an American flag which had been hung among tho decorations was pulled down and torn to pieces. Much excite ment prevailed. From Pike County. The Bamesville Gazette, of toe 23d, says,that city is improving. There is considerable! build ing and a praiseworthy activity among the , mer chants. We clip the following paragraphs from the Gazette : Weather, Crops, Etc.—Notwithstanding the prospects for rain, spoken of in our last issue, we are still having unprecedentedly dry wea ther, and we have come to the same conclusion with too man who signed the pledge—that “all signs fail in dry weather.” We are having toe best kind of weather for gathering crops, and our farmers .aro making use of toe opportunity. We have heard of several who have gathered a portion of their com crop. They report it, very good, but regret that toe area planted was so small. Cotton is coming into market qnite rapidly, and prices, as a natural consequence, are declining. When will we learn our interest? Nearly all the mills in tho country have sus pended operations until it rains. Tho “oldest citizen”, says that there has not been such a. dry spell at this time of toe year since the fall pf 1889, when it did not rain from the first of Au gust until the middle of November. With much regret we announce the death of F. M. Grove, of Monroe county, who .died on Tuesday morning, 20th instant, at his residence. He was found near the road on Sunday evening last, some four miles above Strouds Cross-Roads, his head badly bruised, and his buggy not far from the same spot. Itis supposed his, horse ran away with him, threw him from the buggy, and the fall was such as rendered him speech less ever afterward. ’■ Mr. N. Owen’s residence, about three milqs from town, on toe road to Forsyth, was burned last week and everything in it destroyed. A subscription is being raised to assist Mr. Owen. We hope our citizens will respond liberally to this call. A Search fbr Mineral Beposlts. The Rome Courier of the 23d inst, says: Colonel Hnlbert, as Superintendent of the State Road, has employed Rev. Charles Wallace Howard to make a thorough survey of the south ern slope of Lookout Mountain in search of iron, coal and petroleum oil. Mr." -Howard left this city yesterday with two servants, a wagon and camp equippage, and will commence, the survey in the neighborhood of Alpine, near the line of Chattooga county, Ga., and Cherokee, Alabama. Judging from his thorough scientific attain ments, and his great love for and devotion to geologyand mineralogy, we confidently hope for important results from this survey. . It is generally known that iron, exists in the greatest abundance all through this section, and that bituminous coal crops out la many places, but it is not known that the latter is in veins sufficiently thick and near cheap transportation to pay for the mining. Between the month of John’s oreek and Coosaville, in this county. Mr. Howard thinks the indications of petroleum are quite as good as anywhere in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. _ No Discrimination.—Tho impression is quite strong in some portions of Southwestern Georgia, that the Central and Southwestern Railroads are disposed to discriminate against the Macon market to the advantage of the Savannah market. We have no evidence whatever that snch is the fact, and consequently wo don’t believe a word of it. Thus far this season wa know that the Southwestern Road has been conducting'its business in a perfect ly fair and disinterested manner to both markets, and we do not believe it could or would injure the Macon trade one farthing if in its power to do so. The impression alluded to is, therefore, in onr judg ment wholly unfounded and unreasonable. A Postal Freak.—The Atlanta New Era of yes- tci day has the following: On the 28th day of July, a valuable letter was mailed from the Treasury Department at Washing ton to a gentleman in this city.-' The letter con tained a check for a large amount of money. The letter was never received here, but ths cheek was picked up in the streets of Maoon and sent to the gentleman for whom it was first intended, with his name forged on the back of it. The money inclosed in the same letter has not been heard from. There is a pouch sent direct from Washington to this post-office. Such being the case, can any one an swer to tbe satisfaction of the gentleman how-this oheck got to Maoon ? There is a mystery about it which puzzles all the detective skill at our com mand, and we confess that we are lost in a maze of wonderment in endeavoring to fathom such a postal irregularity. We hope yet to have Borne light upon the subject. ^ Horse Race.—There will be a half mile dash for $100 at the race track to-morrow afternoon, at 9 o’clock, between “Kate Spears" and a faat little shrrel mare, which her owner thinks is a jewel when discussing horseflesh. We shall see to-morrow whether she can shine on our turf or not. Old Boreas had it all Wa own w ay in these parts ’ yesterday, and throughput the day clouds.of dust : and trash were sweeping through the streets, blind- ing everybody and soiling everything. No rain yet; i and no prospects of any. , Too Bad—We merely announced in Ust SumW Teleorath the fact which we knew its tfaciu»nd**n# readers would hail with Joy, that from and aft* & 18th instant, Sunday mail service would be re formed on the Southwestern Railroad, For this simple announcement, some wretch in Enfant in utter disregard of tbe wishes of the neoDle •' Southwestern Georgia and in his own SUtTTd ? supreme contempt, both of our dignity and laZ* 0 tion, sneaked into the office of tbe Enfant w" while the editor was out trying to find somethin??’ eat, and bribed one of the printers to publish tirade of abuse upon the locals of. the News ani Telegraph, merely because the General Govern! ment, appreciative of their worth, dignity of ch actor and influence, had promptly and eheerfuU* complied with their demands for such Sunday service, and granted them facilities for com'wm} oating with each other and with their readers day in toe week. The reckless wretch heads his article— 1 “Whatew, is to be, will be.” and if there is a particle of in it at all, it lies in its impudence and audarif He presumes to read us a lecture about the Hi Sabbath Day, and charges ns with trespassing its quiet domain with sundry locomotives, steam! boats, stages, hacks and mail bags. With the t" of thunder and the fierceness of lightning we ^ it: but even if it were true, it would not hurt conscience of our pen and ink assassin. He is ^ of those lazy devils who, like the baboon, J*? on two bunions as large as saucers, wia’hin- eve" day was Sunday, so that he might have someVcnZ for his laziness. He don’t like to see anythin* de on Sunday, because he fears that he will be ‘W-a in” sometime for a little work on that dav. Hiia • the secret of his hostility to all live, energetic peT pie. Fellows of his stripe have less respect for the Sabbath than anybody else, and were nerer intnvn to keep a day of fasting and prayer, unless from sheer laziness they had got out of h 0 g and h om i nv They prate of piety and pray only for plenty to eat But, not content with an assault npon onr morals', the hypocritical “kuss,” wantonly, purposely and maliciously, seeks to poison, corrupt and contam inate the very blood in our veins, by asserting that toe local editors of the News and Telegraph ara brothers. We indignantly soom to characterize tho aspersion in befitting language. There'a no Blvi blood under this skin. If there was and we knew where it lay conoealed, a brace of leeches would be hanging to the spot in less than two minutes. No sir! We’ve got a boy not two feet high who will fight on that proposition. Come at us, then, in any shape you like, oh, heartless wretch! Ay, spill onr blood if you will, hut don't spoil it l Stand eboh Under !—The other day an old negro called upon the Ordinary of Bibb County to make a statement under oath, saying that he had walked fifteen miles for the purpose of doing so, and he wanted toe Ordinary, or his clerk, to. be very parti- cular in taking down what he said, as the Angel of the Lord had appeared to him, and instructed him to come to Macon, and before au offieer of the law, swear to what the Angel said. The Ordinary told him (to get shut of him) that he was not the officer to attend to matters of Buch grave import, and re ferred him to the Supervisor of Revenue, and the colored prophet called -at that gentleman's office. He fell into the hands of two dorks, who slowly took down his statements, and among others of a strange and startling nature, one that the end of all things was at hand, and the wrath of the Lord in the shape of a “korrnit," as he called it, with a mighty tail of fire and brimstone, was a coming, and to get a commission from the right man to go into all toe world and preach the end of time. The clerks wrote down his statemonts and pet upon the document about seventeen seals, and de livered it. They further duly commissioned him to preach what he had hoard from the Angel; but hewu advised to keep quiet and say nothing of his grsad mission until he should get to Alaska, and then, for the first time, thunder forth his startling revela tions, and after doing ' bo, then pass diagonally across tho American continent, like the shadow of a total eclipse, and enter Cuba and tell the belliger ents over there they had both just as well ground their arms, as they would all be hurt enough in a few days. "With these instructions and his many sealed document the negro departed. We rely npon our special artists and correspond ents in Alaska for correct and prompt reports and sketches of what transpires when old Sambo opens on them. • He’s going.to “snatch” things generally, helweet and crooked! Stand from under! EXECUTOR’S SALE. A SPLENDID PLANTATION Xu Monroe County. 1>Y virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinarr cf JL> Monroe couuty. will bo sold ou the first TUES DAY in Novembernext.heforethe'Court-flousedoor dn Said county.withia the let.il hours of sale, the plan tation whereon Aquilla Cheney lived at his atatb, containing seven hundred acres, more or less. It lie* between Yellow Creek and Tobeaof kee. and a-ijoiot the lands of Thomas Dewberry, William K. Hardin and Battle. Itis one of the moet'deairable-tImita tions in Middle Georgia-with stood improvement*, productive land, and convenient to market, rharta and schools. It lies eight miles sooth of rortyta. Titles unquestionable. Terms cash. _ Sold as the property of Aqailta Cheney, late of said county, de- cc.ised. Also, will be sold bn thenext day, (Wednesday) on the plantation, four fine mules, two wagons, (twe- horse and six-horse,) and harness, and the crop of corn, fodder, and cotton, eto., grown this year. Alio, a gin and all the perishable property remaining un told. Sold as the property of said Cheney’s estate. A. J. CHENEY. Executor. Pleasant Hill P. O., Talbot co., Ga. sept!5-td . ■ ' Plantation for Sale. W ILL be sold before tho Court-honse door in Per ry Houston county, Ga-, on the FIRST TUES DAY IN NOVEMBER next, the PLANTATION belonging to the estate ofGreene Hill, deceased. Ts« place consists of thirteen hnndred aores, well waters and well improved in every particular, and is note* as one of the best cotton plantations in that eectionoj the State. It is healthy, convenient to schools «« churches, end good society, and is situated in a section where an abundance of etoady and reliable labor CM be obtained. . . ,, Terms—Half cash, half 12 months, secured by moit- gage on land. ;tinti )u ImJ !:'?’• , , On tbe day following, will be sold on the place. miles from Per*y, the MULES, CATTLE, HOde- Stock of all kind-, Farming Implements and perfes*; ble property of every description belonging to W 1 estate. Terms cosh. . , . -cpU j.-i r - -- The said sales will be made for distribution amotf the heirs. The place may be purchased at rriviM sale if desired. ; JAS- A-HILL. y" * . j y j ._ j | ^ A. if* lliLLi Executors of the last will'and testament sept-il-d2tawawtd of Green Hill, dec TWO mum PLANTATION FOR S-A-X-iE. s-half O NE two miles from Rome arid one ani jgtfi.- miles fromS.. R. A D. R. R. Depot. two hundred and seventy-five acres of good wsu.* 11 " W ThU a pUce 6< was settled by Col. Wade S.CoA^ and the dwelling and oat-house# are ail neat dwelling is two stories and-contains sev« '«•. rooms. A.-lplendidwellof wader and elegant orewro- This is one of the most desirable residences new lu Cl The other place is on the Calhoun rot<l, miles from the city: was settled by Mr. John and is well improved. Dwelling contains comfortable rooms. , u This farm contains 200 eeres of land, and a * watered: water can be brought to the house, tar# 11 * pipes, from an elegant spring In saying that these two places are not sniP’-- j in looation, by any farms near .toenity. I kp® w e ‘| m . do not exagerate. Both places in sight of too bci Rome ard Dalton Railroad. i.-.ntl The growing orop. stock and farming uapl*® will bo sold with either place if desired. .. _ t . Both of the above places wifi be sold at public^ cry, on the first Tuesday la ©otokjKvjtP&ASr?S. before that time. . JOHH SCANW*' Sept2-dlaw4waw4t. . Sffotice to Physicians, 3>ra;gists The Public Generally: tb* Extraot cf Bnehn," now being mannftctureo“Vv e fered to the public by Messrs. L. Pierce A t£v— great pleasure In certifying to all cf oar Piet#*”? „ and to all druggist and all persons who may ^ Extraot Buclm—that this Extract is by far *?. article ever used • so meeh so that we give*'*1 0 ( prominence in all those diseases a the treat® which Buehu is useful. . ■ - „ „ »> Columbus. Ga., April 20,1309. . „ ft*. Wholesale Agenoy at L. W. BUNT q» sep2-w3m 82 uttHSi Pherr yt- MRS. EDWARD ENGLISH AND FRENCH BOARDING BOROO FOR YOUNG LADIES , W. Caroor"?;^^ ollegefProf.Darie*.IJtfw York: w.j gout'. - aroliwa; Prof. Bartlett. Wes* Academy. EoBS&«HaBi