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—wwuupa 1 iuj'i Mmmmn The Greorgia, ^W"eehly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON FRIDAY, OOTOBER 8, 1869. The \fgro Labor Union. Aocording to the American Union, (Swayze’s paper,) the movement, fathered by Jeff LoDg, to get np a Labor Union among the negroes and pledge them to demand thirty dollars a month for field hands and fifteen dollars a month for women, is the work of J. E. Bryant, and Long is the catspaw in the business. If these worthies should succeed in bringing up the negroes to that line, they will make ft case of them; for it is needless to say they will all necessarily forfeit wages. Nor is it possible to fix upon a safe minimum of wages for field hands, simply because that some of them would be dear for their food, while others, who are intelligent, • able, faithful and honest would be comparatively cheap at twenty dollars a month and rations. Piece work cannot be applied to the plantation, and therefore the common dead level of the trades unions which is wholly unjust in respect to them, would be impossible in plantation labor. Unquestionably the price of labor will rise this winter, but the demand of any such mini mum by the negroes as thirty dollars a month will destroy the wages system altogether. Hands must then lie idle and relapse into va grancy, or be content to labor on shares and take risks with the landowner. The Situation in Pennsylvania. The Washington special of the 28 to ult. to the Louisville Courier-Journal says that “The Radicals are alarmed at the situation in Pennsvlvania. As things now look, they freely admit in quiet conversation that the Democrats will carry the State in October. The Chairman of the Republican State Committee, John Co- vode, arrived here to-day, and with'Senator Wil son, who has been making speeches m Pennsyl vania, had an interview with the President, and suggested various measures of relief for the Re publican party. One is that Pennsylvania be given the existing Cabinet vacancy, so that the State mny not feel that it is ignored by the ad ministration. Other requests mentioned in to day's conference have not transpired. Of course, it will be telegraphed hence that Wilson and Co- vodo declare that the Radicals will carry Penn sylvania, bnt their sudden visit to the President to-day and their cry for help belie their words.” The election in Pennsylvania, as well as Ohio, occurs next Tuesday week, the 12 th instant. The difference in the fair relative strength of politi cal parties in Pennsylvania, in G5G,000 votes, does not amount to twenty thousand—say three votes in every hundred or thirty votes in every thousand—so that neither party can be free from much danger and anxiety in any popular election. Ohio has polled in the last three elections an average of 498,765 votes, with an averago Rad ical majority of G9,4G5. John S. Reid, John T. Dennis, .Hast Have Honey. The Mississippi Radicals have sent circulars North making an urgent appeal to their political brethren for pecuniary aid. They state their requirements thus, in italics and capitals: “To effect this in a way that the opposition shall smart under it, and they shall yield peace ful submission at the ballot box, wo shall have need of at least TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS from the friends of our party else where. The poor whites and the colored men are the most numerous class in the State. Many of them are starving, and our political enemies are providing them with bread. Many are sick, and they clotho them. Others are thirsty, and they drink with them. Thus danger, fearful and threatening, hovers over us, and to avert it we MUST have money.” If that is the way they are going to do, the smart of the opposition, will doubtless be offset by the satisfaction of the Mississippi darkies over plenty of bread and whisky. A story is afloat that this sad appeal from Mississippi for money to buy whisky for the negro voters was read in the Massachusetts Radical Convention before that body took final action in utterly sup pressing the liquor traffic. It moved the Con vention to tears and meantime the hat was passed round with an abundant blessing. Is that so? Delegates to the State Fair. Eatonton, September 29, 1869. Editors Telegraph: Herewith please find list of delegates, from the Planters’ Club of Put nam county, to the State Fair, in pursuance of invitation from the State Agricultural Society: James A. Etheridge, President. Henry D. Capers, Secretary. R. D. Little, William Little, J. T. DeJaraette, A. S. Reid, Jr., Henry Lawrence, Dr. N. S. Walker, Wm. Y. Young, Thomas G. Lawson, Reuben B. Nisbet. Respectfully, Henbv D. Capers, Secretary Planters’ Club. Thb Southern Cultivator for October has reached us. We can do our planting friends no greater service than to call their attention to this agricultural magazine. It is the leading representative of that revolution in Southern farming, which has been inaugurated since the war, with such happy results. Its editors, though progressive, are evidently cautious men, attaching great weight to experience, as is shown by the large number of articles in every issue, written by practical farmers in all the Southern States. Its corps of contributors is unrivalled. We notice that the publishers continue to furn ish to new subscribers the letters contributed by Mr. Dickson, embodying his experience and practice. These alone are worth twenty years subscription. If you have never seen the paper, send a stamp to Southern Cultivator, Athens, Ga., for a specimen copy, and examine it for yourself. Price $2.00 a year. California Trophies.—At a State Fair now holding in San Francisco the Boggs Bros., of Sherman Island, on the Savannah river, exhibit a oouple of citrons, very large—one labelled 43 pounds; also, three mammoth watermelons— one labelled 47 pounds. They also exhibit sam ples of potatoes which yielded 454 bushels to the acre, at a gross weight of 27,250 pounds.— A squash is found in the vicinity which looks as if it might weigh two hundred pounds. Mrs. Stowe’s Conscience.—Aunt Tommy has a conscience, but it is located in a strange place. In her 11 Sunny Memories oj Foreign Lands," page 420 voL 2, she thus writes: “Suddenly, so suddenly that it was quite mys terious, conscience smote me. A profound, deep-seated remorse developed itself exactly in the deepest centre 6f the pit of my stomach.” There—there! What can the chnrch do with a hag who mistakes cholera-morbus for con science ?—Augusta Constitutionalist. Geobox Washington has just been sent to the Virginia State Prison; Thomas Jefferson, Dan iel Webster and John C. Calhoun were already there, and Napoleon Bonaparte and Wade Hampton have received tickets of admission. The Cotton Receipts yesterday were the heaviest of the season—689 bales. There is a deadlock in the market—buyers demanding a concession and producers determined to yield no .more. The campaign for the U. S. Senate in Ten* neesee waxes hot. Emerson Ethridge made a speech in Nashville, and a public entry into the city last Wednesday. September closed with cotton at 22$ in Mont gomery. Charles Dickens' son, a lieutenant in the British navy, is at Portland, Oregon. The Whisky Frauds and Tax j ’ The New York Times of the 28th ult., in ah. editorial laudation of the fiscal economies of the administration, mentions one or two very inter esting facts. They are contained in the follow ing extract: Take the single article of whisky. The total quantity on which revenue taxes were collected for the year ending June 30, 18G8 (i. e. under President Johnson,) was only G,709,540 gallons. The revenue then was at the rate of two dollars a gallon, and amounted, therefore, to between thirteen and fourteen millions of dollars. On the contrary, for the year ending June, 18G9, the Bureau of Internal Revenue has had returns of annual taxes on no less than G5,009,331 gal lons of whisky! Again, compare the revenue receipts from January to June, inclusive, for 18G8, with those of January to June, inclusive, in 18G9. In the former period the tax on whisky was two dollars a gallon, in the latter only fifty cents; and yet, despite this enormous advantage in favor of the former period, its revenue receipts on the same objects of taxation were less by $21,500,000 than those of the same period in 1869! The increased revenue is due, of course, sim ply to the reduction of the tax. A tax of two dollars on the gallon could not be collected. That was the persistent representation of every news paper and politician of any practical sense, and here we see it illustrated by figures, showing that whereas the two dollar tax was collected only upon G,709,54G gallons, tho fifty cent tax was collected on G2,009,331 gallons. But it was a tax confessedly not for revenue but levied in the high interests of morality and total ab stinence. The effort now is among the liquor dealers to restore the old tax of two dollars, and it is easily explained. Under it they really escaped with an average tax of not more than twenty cents per gallon, becanse, as the figures show, the great bulk of the whiskey product escaped tax altogether. But while thus escaping the tax the prices of their liquors were to a g.'eat extent fixed by the tax. They were not often much below the two dollars per gallon. The exorbitant tax, then, operated for the benefit of the whisky makers in the nature of a protective tariff of extraordinary efficiency. It sent up their wares more than ono hundred per cent, on prime cost, including the tax, and thus, iD order to collect “between thirteen and four teen millions of revenue,” for the government from the people, the latter were fleeced more than sixty-two millions for the benefit of the whisky manufacturers. It is not surprising that tho distillers insist that the tax shall be raised again. They are now paying thirty-one millions tax, when they used to pay but thirteen. Whisky was then about two dollars a gallon on twenty cents tax, whereas it is now a little upwards of one dollar with fifty cents tax. The difference is some thing stupendous, and no wonder the whisky men complain. Bat it is a wonder that the New York Times cannot find a better foundation for compliments to tho Grant administration than the inevitable result of the abandonment of a tax so monstrous as to be absolutely uncollectible. Affairs in Tennessee. Special Dispatch to the Courier-Journal.) Nashville, September 28.—The Legislature convenes next Monday, and early in tho suc ceeding week will elect a United States Senator. At this early day the following events can be predicted with reasonable certainty of their ful fillment: 1. Andrew Johnson will be elected Senator. 2. The fifteenth amendment will not be rat ified. 3. A constitutional convention will be called at an early day, which body will effect the en franchisement of every disfranchised person in the State at the earliest practicable moment, bnt will not interfere with the civil and political rights of the negro. 4. The bonds of the State will not be repudi ated, although earnest advocates for such a measure will not be wanting. 5. The partisan legislation of the last few years will be generally repealed. These are the main questions to come before the Legislature and the convention growing out of it. The fight over the Senatorship will be fierce, but the result can be told in advance. The new Legislature will contain an abler set of men than has ever been found in the Tennessee General Assembly before. The Press and Times, the Radical organ of this city, will suspend in a day or two, leaving not a single daily Radical paper in the State, as Brownlow’s Whig has become qnite conserva tive. The collapse of Radicalism in Tennessee is as effectual as that of a mammoth balloon bursting from over-inflation. Matters are quiet throughout the State. That, it will be seen, is a very bold and con fident prediction, and tho fulfillment of the prophecy, as a whole, we believe, will be gene rally gratifying to the Southern Democracy. Whatever infirmities of temper may be as cribed to Mr. Johnson, he is an honest and in corruptible statesman—a clear and powerful ex ponent of constitutional liberty—a bold and in trepid advocate of law, order and official re sponsibility, and he will find few or no compeers in the Senate of the United States on the scores of intellectual ability, experience and power as a debater. We believe Tennessee will do herself and the country a service by returning Mr. Johnson to the Senate, and we do not compre hend the influences which have thrown the Nashville Banner in opposition to him. The rest of the programme there can be little division abont among Democrats. Bushwhacking.—In the Pennsylvania canvass the Radicals have a large force of spokesmen in the field—Senators Wilson and Cameron, Phi losopher Forney, Colnmbns Delano and a score of others. On the Democratic side there’s not an orator on the stamp, and Forney complains that the Copperheads are bushwhacking. He says, however, Tho reports from the interior continue to be of the most cheering character. Increased en ergy and activity are shown in all quarters. A close count of the vote is being made in many sections so accurately that the result cau be de termined beforehand. All that is needed for the Republicans to sweep the State is to get out the fall vote, and in many of the counties this im portant work is being effectively done by the various local committees. Pennsylvania State Fair.—There had been five thousand entries of exhibitors up to the 29th nit. ColninbuH Affairs. The Sun and Times of Thursday has the fol lowing: River News.—Since the recent rains the river has risen two feet. At 11 a. m. yesterday, it was at a stand-still, and the supposition was it would run ont faster than it had risen. Not high enough for navigation. Below Eufaula boats are doing a passable business. At least 5000 bales of cotton are between here and Eufaula, ready to be shipped to this point, and only awaiting a rise in the river to be sent to market. Last sea son at this time boats were running regularly. Cotton by the Mobile and Girard Railroad. —Yesterday's freight train on the Mobile and Girard Road brought 220bales of cotton for Co lumbus warehouses and G1 for Savannah. Thus far this road has brought 1741 bales for Colum bus and 255 for Savannah. Heavy Load.—We saw last afternoon a wagon on which were twelve bales of cotton, drawn by six males, come to one of our warehouses. It had been drawn four and a half miles. Good team that. Muscogee Manufactory. —This e stablishment is daily receiving machinery from the North and England. Operations will probably be com menced about the first of January, if not at an earlier day. Abont 4,000 spindles is the capac ity of the building, and it will be crowded with machinery. They tell us of two negroes at the County Poor House. One claims to be one hundred and ten, the other one hundred and twenty years old. Of course both know George Wash ington and (he other noted personages who flour ished before the late unpleasantness, and were held in some esteem. Steel Balls. At a time, hardly three years-ago, when the price of steel rails was £15 per ton, many of the leading engineers of the kingdom, in dis cussing Mr. Price Williams’ well known paper on Permanent Way, expressed their general concurrence in the policy of substituting steel in place of iron rails, in all renewals upon lines of heavy traffic. A little before that time the American railway companies were paying £24 14s. ($120 gold) for steel rails delivered, duty paid, in New York. So convinced did they be come as to the advantages of steel over iron, that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company bad purchased nearly 12,000 tons of steel rails np to the end of 1863, the Erie Company had bonght large quantities, the Hudson River Line, 144 miles long, is being wholly relaid in steel, the New York and New Haven, 76 miles long, is being relaid in steel as fast as renewals become necessary, and several other American compa nies have shown, by their practice, that even at the higher price of steel, they consider it cheap er, in the long run, than iron. In the meantime the price of steel rails has fallen as low as £11 103. to £12 per ton, without any corresponding decrease in the price of iron. If steel at the higher price was preferable to iron, it certainly is so at the lower price. The price of steel, irrespective of patent royalists, may yet fall still lower, but to defer its use in expectation of such a fall would be simply to incur the greater wear and tear and greater or less danger of iron in the meantime. Should the price of steel yet fall to nearly that of iron the former material wonld, no doubt, from its great and inccntestible advantages, be preferred even on lines of moderate or little traffic, even where iron rails might, of themselves, last per haps fifteen or twenty years. But upon that new extensive aggregate of lines on which iron rails last bnt from one to five years, the adop tion of steel would bo virtually compulsory. To-day, to-morrow—every day in this year and next—there will be found portions of lino, here and there, which must be renewed at once. Railroad companies are seldom, if ever, in too great a huriy to renew rails. Nor should these be renewed as long as they are reasonably safe. But when once they begin to “go,” to laminate, or to crush out at the ends, or at any point in their length, the process of final destruction is swift and sure. It is not only the business of a permanent way inspector to discover what rails are unfit to remain longer in the line, but to de tect and keep his eye upon rails in an incipient stage of failure. There are always thousands of such rails in all old lines, and although they may often be trusted for a few months, more or less, especially in summer, it is akin to defying Providence to leave them in any advanced stage of deterioration, in the lino at the beginning of winter. Renewed they must be, and in renew ing them the engineer of any works will be guided by his own judgment whether to lay down iron or steel. He will consider the ques tion in regard not only to their relative first cost, but with regard also to the present and prospective trafic, and with regard to the rela tive durability and safety of the two kinds of rails. If, in this full consideration, steel ap pears to possess the advantage, after allowing for its present cost, no engineer wonld either defer his necessary renewals, or lay down iron merely because steel would possibly be 17s. Gd, or 20s. cheaper after February next. The probable future price of steel rails is a question of much interest to railway companies. After February 15th next a royalty of from 17s. Gd. to 19s. per ton will cease to bo levied on the manufacture of steel rails, and, if other condi tions remain the same, they will then be to that extent cheaper than they are now. Further im provements may also be made, although steel masters see no chance of any at present: bnt any reduction in price, resulting from such im provements would be wholly independent of the question of royalty, and it wonld be as easy to assume that corresponding improvements would be effected in the manufacture of ordinary iron, in which cast iron and steel wonld still remain upon their present relative footing as to cost. Although such questions are to a great extent matters of forecast and judgment, there are rea sons of fair weight, which any man of business can readily comprehend, why steel rails are not likely to be as much cheaper, after February next, as the amount of the royalty to be then token off. First, the price of steel rails has al ready been brought as low as the keenest com petition has been able to bring it, and it is well known that thousands of tons have been made without profit Should railway companies or der much more freely after February next, the inevitable effect, as proved by all experience, and inferable from the plainest principles of po litical economy, would be to maintain or to in crease prices. In nearly all branches of trade, too, there has been long continued depression, and this, at last, appears to be passing away.— Should our manufactures and commerce attain something like their former elasticity by next spring, as there is reason to believe they may, the effect would be at once manifested in on in crease in the price of labor and materials suffi cient to offset the abated royalty on steel rails, a royalty now amonnting to from eight or nine per cent, of their cost.—Engineering, June 4. The Fire in Dismal Swamp. A gentleman who passed along up tho Sea board road on a hand-car, and had an opportu nity to make a few observations, has been talk ing to ns. Ho witnessed great trees, thirty or forty feet, on fire up to the top, all their leaves and branches burning np rapidly, and then a puff of wind toppling them over the same as they were but oat-straw; when, on looking at their roots, you would find the ground under neath them completely burned out, and nothing remaining but coals and ashes. Large holes are to be observed all over the swamp completely burned out, and nothing remaining in or near them bnt the charred tranks of trees. He stopped for some time between the twelfth and thirteenth mile posts, and had a good view of tho surroundings. The fire has burnt the earth or peat np to the ditch-bank of the railroad, and in some places as far as the eye conld reach it looked like a great waterless lake, where form erly was dry land and vegetation. Great num bers of cattle and animals of all kinds have been destroyed by the fire, the bones of many of which can be seen from the road-track. These matters cannot be observed in passing along on the cars, os they go too rapidly for ob servation. It is his impression that nearly all the space burned out by the fire will be a lake from three to ten feet deep, &3 the earth or vegetable mould which formed terra firma in the swamp is all burnt to ashes. A singular feature was mentioned by him in regard to farms along the Dismal Swamp. Smoke conld be seen issuing from underneath the corn fields of the farms, which led him to believe that their whole foundationwonJd bnm ont unless a heavy rain interfered to prevent it. This matter of the charred trees falling, owing to the earth being bnrned from under them, will account for a fact that there has al ways been more or less theorizing about It has long been a matter of snrmise with many how it was that there were so many trees lying prostrate in the swamp, many of them eight and tenfeet belowthe surface, apparently uninjured. I has been a business with lumber-getters to dig these trees np heretofore. This fire explains fnlly how they came in that condition. Long- continued droughtsheretofore have enabled the yearly-recurring fires to bnrn their soil from un der them and lay them prostrate. It is said the bottom of the great lake itself is covered by trees in the same way, and it is the theory of some that the basin of the lake was caused by being bnmt ont. If so, it appears it must have been from a greater and longer-continued drought than this generation has witnessed. [Norfolk Day Book. Mrs. H. Waddingeb, a lady of high social position and much intelligence, from Hanover, Germany, haB recently made a tour of observa tion through the Sonth. Her purpose was to determine, in behalf of herself and others, the question of removal to America, and her im pressions are communicated in a letter to the Memphis Appeal, from which the following ex tract is taken: “The opinion entertained pre vious to my visit, that the Southern States were in many respects far better adapted to the wants of my countrymen than the Northwest, has been fnlly confirmed, and I shall not fail to so advise them of their interests intheiqatter, and to use whatever influence I may be able to ex ert, both among my friends in Germany as well as those in the States North and West of yours, in giving suoh directions to emigration.” The National Intelligenoer breaks ground against the movement for .the introduction of Chinese laborers into this country, and quotes Hon. George H. Pendleton as follows: ‘‘But the Chinese will give us cheap labor. Cheap human labor! I despise the word. It signifies a crime and a shame. It signifies squal or, repudiation, ignorance, vice. Are not la borers men; our fellow-men ? They have bodies to clothe and stomachs to feed, and minds to educate and spirits to elevate, and old age to provide for ? They have homes which they love, and wives whom they cherish, and children whom they hope to make worthy citizens—the honest fathers and the virtuous mothers of a succeeding generation. * * Labor is too cheap Dow. Labor does not receive its just reward.’’ B3T From Washington. Washington, October l.—No Cabinet develop ments. Judge Richardson has resigned the Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury. Among those named for Yirginia Senatorship is Edgar Snoden, editor of the Alexandria Gazette.— Mr. Snowden opposes the election of Senators until Virginia ia restored, but if the election does take place it is understood that Snowden will be support ed by tho Potomac, Tidewater and Upper Piedmont regions and a large part of tho Valley districts. Commander Luce reports from Lisbon that he reached that port in twenty-one days. His vessel, the Juniata, is a success as a sailing vessel. The Juniata found the Sabine at Lisbon. There had been no trouble whatever on the Sabine. Revenue receipts to-day $395,000. PiBh and Delano have returned. Fish and Creswell were absent from the Cabinet to-day. The Supreme Court convenes on Monday, with a full bench. Commandant of the Aaiatio Squadron reports the health good, and American interests flourishing in Chinese waters. Delano thinks Geary will be re-elected by a small majority. The debt statement shows a decrease of seven and a half millions; coin in treasury nearly one hundred and nine millions; currency six and a half millions. The steamer Enterpe, of the New York and Gal veston line, is under surreilanco, pending instruc tions from Washington. She had a cargo of hnge parrot guns, tons upon tons of solid shot and shell The authorities suspect this cargo is intended to arm the Spanish gun boats now ready for sea. The account says there are just thirty of these gunboats, and singularly enough there were found in the hold of the Enterpe just thirty of theso hundred pound parrot guns. There were also three tlionsand solid shot and shell, which had been cast for these same parrots. The Tribune says editorially of theEn- terpe’s detention: The authorities have just laid hands npon a vessel which, by all accounts, appears to have been destined to supply with armaments the Spanish gun boats at Mystic. The possibility that great harm might have been and may bo done thereby to the cause of struggling patriotism, na turally provokes a most earnest desire that no want of vigilance shall permit a wroDg to an neighbor whoso comparative weakness and whoso noble as pirations have onr hearty sympathies. Tho ploa of tho Cubans, that they should have tho same right to pnrehaso arms as their savago antagonists, must be admitted in the light of menacing events to have unusual force. Beverly B. Botts has been appointed Collector of Revenue in tho Sixth Virginia District, vice Sterling suspended. Tho Telegrafo, recently cruizing in West India waters, is declared a pirate. Poor has been ordered to capture her. The steamer Hornet is off New York, supposed to be there watching gunboats and also to intercept the Enterpe, which was expected to sail with sup plies far the Spaniards. ThqHoraet is daily receiv ing supplies. Her Captain is in New York City, and well posted regarding the Spanish Government. Tho Captain’s name is withheld, hut it is -under stood to he a noted Confederate. The Hornet has been fitted out by parties in New York and Boston, who have no connoctiOD with the Cuban Jnnta that has been operating here. Tho Hornet is formidable and very fast. Washington, October 2 It seems certain that new Cuban expeditions are engineered by parties unknown, but much more potent than tho old Cuban Jnnta. Advices from Canada and details from New York, especially as supported by the Herald's dispatch from Key West, indicate formidable demonstrations. Revenue to-day $850,000. Advices from the East India Squadron are unfa vorable to tho apprentice system. Many have de- eerted, and those remaining are always under pun ishment. A delegation of Ohio steamboatmen, headed by James H. Moorhead, is here before the Board, op posing bridges over navigable streams less than 400 feet span. Sherman opposes the further reduction of tho army until the Indian tronbles are over. Consul Plumb reports Spanish interference with the mails at Havana, which ho believes will be fol lowed by open seiznro unless the Government acts promptly. The despatches were referred to Cress- well. >. It is stated that Delano has prepared a circular to assessors, referring to incomes, which involves uni versal domiciliary visits. Those who have failed to report must all make oath. Delano demands ener getic action from assessors. Senator Bamsey reports much difficulty to tho move in postal reforms. In the correspondence between agents in Europe and the State Department regarding the Hornet, Fish takes the ground that he cannot, upon rumor, grant a convoy; but should a vessel bearing the na tional flag be unlawfully molested, prompt action will be taken to prevent a repetition of the outrage and punish offenders. The special partisans of the Cespedes government have unfavorable advices from the interior of Cuba which seem confirmatoiy of the Havana reports of Jordan’s desire to abandon the struggle. Filibustering Rampant. New York, October 2.—The Herald’s Key West special says a Cuban expedition four hundred strong, commanded by General Cristo, escaped from Now York harbor on Monday, and reached the Florida coast, where she was joined by the Cuban privateers Sicilian and Teaser, with sixteen hundred men under Gen. Goizara. The Sicilian fleet is freighted with ten thousand rifles, five thousand sabres and twenty guns, ranging from six to twenty-four pounders. Another body of men under Steadman and M&gru- der is about embarkiDg from a gulf port for tho common rendezvous off the Cuban coast. The Sici lian and Teaser sailed last night and will be joined at sea by the Cuban privateers Hornet and Cuba, carrying each fifteen guns, some of which are hun dred pounders. Volunteering is very brisk along the entire gulf coast, five thousand men are waiting transportation. Marshal Barlow denies that the steamer Alabama is a Cuban privateer. She is a regular steamer be tween New York and Fernandina. Barlow haB with drawn surveillance. Tho failure of Adams, Kimball and Moore, and Pullisan & Raymond is announced on the Stock Board. The Dictator and 8evem has been equipped and coaled in momentary expectation of an order for Cuba. From Texas. New Orleans, October 1.—A Galveston special from Houston says the so-called Democratic Con vention at Brenham consisted of five editors. The Democratic party, through its Executive Committee, refused to call a Convention or make any nomina tion for Governor. The Democratic party of Texas has no sympathy or connection with this move. Galveston, October 2.—Provisional Governor Pease sent in his resignation yesterday, and will take the stomp for Hamilton. The action of Gen. Reynolds and the Administra tion regarding Texas affairs, wOl cause twenty more Republican speakers to take the field for the Hamil ton ticket. Preparations are being made for a grand Hamilton demonstration. From Cuba. Savannah, October 1.—Arrived, steamer Catharine Whitney, from New York; ship Screamer, from New York. Cleared, schooners Maggie McNeil and Coy- nette, for Matanzas, and Jennie Trott, for New York. ' Havana, Ootober 2.—The barometer indicates a hurricane. The captain of the port has ordered the vessels in harbor to be securely moored. Foreign Hews. Paris, October 2.—Loss by the Bordeaux fire, ten millions francs. The Vienna treaty between Austria and China was duly signed. London, October 2.—The potato crop is estimated below tho average. It is stated that half the crop in Cumberland is diseased. Mexico City, September 1.—The Congress has as sembled. Juarez made a congratulating address on the condition of the Republic. General Hews- Philadelphia, October 1—In a political row two Republicans were killed. Norwalk, Conn., October 1.—The National Bank written while in Mexico. Here is one of Norwalk has been robbed. The bank loees $30.- 000. Private parties lose immensely—amount nof known. Charleston, October 1—Arrived, steamer Charles ton, from New York; Bteamer Key West, from Ha vana for Now York, put in for coal, etc.; schooners W. B. Thomas, from Philadelphia; S,- E. Woodbury, from Baltimore; Ridgewood, from New York. Philadelphia, October 2.—Another political row occurred last night, and eleven persons are known to beseriously wounded—viz: three Democrats, four Republicans, and three citizens acting as policemen. The Democrats drove the Republicans from their headquarters and destroyed their transparencies. Steady rain since noon. A new dangerous coun terfeit $10 greenback bill has just appeared. Norfolk, Va., October 2.—Sailed, United States steam frigate Lancaster for Annapolis. The Lan caster is a flagship of the Brazilian Squadron, under Rear Admiral Lauman. Sho ia considered one of the finest steam vessels in the navy. After the in spection at Annapolis by the department, the Lan caster will sail for Brazil to join her squadron. The regular hay line steamer which broke Bhaft in the bay last night was towed back to Baltimore, It is rumored that tho military authorities will take steps to prevent the contemplated Collyer- Dougherty prize fight. San Francisco, October 2—A heavy earthquake with a loud noise, occurred at San Lorenzo to-day. Indianapolis, October 2—The boiler of one of two engines competing for speed at the State Fair, exploded killing nineteen and wounding many. Among the killed is Mr. Jackson, of Memphis. Charleston, October 2 Vessels outward bound, detained by heavy weather. Coxcord, N. H., October 2.—Franklin Pierce ia very sick. His disease has assumed a dropsical form. New Orleans, October 2.—Koopmanschapp is here. Tho steamship Siclian left Pass a’L’outro at 4:30 this morning' for Florida ports. The steamship Teaser is still here with no preparation for sea. As these vessels figured most conspicususly there in tho Herald’s Key West special of this morning it is regarded here os a fabrication throughout. From New York- New York, October 1.—Wall street continued quiet to-day, except towards the close, when the stock market was unsettled by rumors of the losses of the Michigan Southern Company, by the late panic. No new developments on the gold question. Many millions of Friday’s contracts were settled to day, and the end of the complication is drawing Fast and West—The Next Census. The census of 1870 promises to open the eyes of a great many people to the rapid changes ■which have taken place in this country. The Chicago Tribune has been figuring on the sub ject and demonstrates to the satisfaction of the candid reader that the East is abont to surren der the sceptre of power to the West. We copy tho following tables of comparison between the two sections, showing the difference of appor tionment in representation between the years 1840 and 1870: 1840 Maine 8 New Hampshire 5 Vermont 5 Massachusetts 12 Connecticut 6 Rhode Island 2 Total., ..38 1870 Maine 4 New Hampshire 2 Vermont 2 Massachusetts 9 Connecticut 4 Rhode Island 1 Total.. It will be seen, at a glance, from this tabular distribution, that the six New England States will lose no less than sixteen members of Con gress. The Western contingent is to bo regulated thus: Ohio.. Michigan. Total. 1840. 19 Ohio. 1870 19 7 Indiana 11 , T —- a Illinois 16 1 Missouri 11 2 Michigan 7 Iowa 8 32 Wisconsin 7 Minnesota 3 Kansas 2 Nebraska 1 Total 85 While the New England States lose sixteen the Western States gain fifty-three members. Counting the States on the Pacific slope as sub stantially allied to Western influences and inter ests, we have a farther addition to the quota of the West of, say, eight representatives, making the total Western gain no less than sixty-one members. The following tablo estimates the change be tween the period named in the representative strength of New England and the other Eastern or Atlantic States combined: 1840 New York 40 New Jersey G Pennsylvavia 28 Delaware 1 Maryland G 81 Add New England. ...38 1870 New York 29 NewJersey 5 Pennsylvania ...25 Delaware 1 Maryland 4 64 Add New England..22 Total 8G Total This table is valuable for showing that in any solid combination in which the Eastern and Mid dle States, including Delaware and Maryland, would put forth their entire strength against a combined Western coalition, the West wonld still triumph by a majority of seven. With the increased representation of the South, which is not given by the Tribune, it is plain to see that, unless some great cheat should be concocted by the Yankees, the authority which the East has so long used for the detri ment of the country is about to be transferred Westward, with the Sonth as a formidable bal ance of power. The tremendous carpet-bag movement Southward was no doubt intended to emasculate this balance and checkmate the re sults of the census of 1870 which favored the West. The East evidently hoped by the jug gleries of reconstruction, to preserve, through its emissaries in the South, much, if not all, of its ancient strength in Congress. This little game has been only of partial suc cess and is destined to ultimate disaster.— Before many years have rolled away, the Sonth will have genuine representatives in the National Councils and she will have a favor able vantage ground to make herself felt be tween the rivalries and bickerings of her antag onistic neighbors of East and West. Ont of snch antagonisms and rivalries the opportunity of the South will come. She will be sought by both sections and made mnch of by either, the one or the other, as the case may be. She will have the casting vote perhaps in snch questions as the removal of the capital, the revision of the tariff, the taxation of bonds and free-trade. The conntry has much to hope for in the census of 1870, and its consequences will be as grati fying to the South and West as they will be doleful for New England.—Constitutionalist. The Swiss in Tennessee.' The consul-general of Switzerland recently pud a visit to a Swiss colony or settlement in Grundy county, Tennessee. The tract they oconpy embraces nearly ten thousand acres of land, producing an abnndant growth of yellow pine, holly, laurel and other woods, which the Swiss carvers delight to work np into toys and domestic implements. Some of the colonists have sufficient means to engage at onoe in stock raising and grape growing. All like the climate and natural surroundings, in which they find mnch to remind them of their native country.— The land they own was bought at fifty cents an acre, is within twelve miles of Traoy City, and the settlers have access to coal and water-power enough to ran the machinery in Tennessee for fifty years to come. The consul-general is greatly pleased with the condition of the colon ists and their prospects. He does not favor their settlement in large bodies, as that wonld tend to cultivate a clannish spirit and prevent assimilation with the nativee of the State. If the proper means conld be instituted it is thought that from ten to fifteen thousand of these ingenious, virtuous people could be set tled on roe cheap lands, in this vicinity within the next twelve months.^ A company has been formed In Paris to carry ont a really novel idea in the way of advertising. The company takes a lease of one window in the second or third story of a house in a prom inent street or boulevard. From dusk till after midnight a transparency, brilliantly lit up on a sea-green ground, sets forth the advertise ment. Yon can arrange either for a display onoe a week or a whole week, eta, alternately in any of the windows in the several quarters possessed by the company. Maximilian and Juarez. To-day’g Appleton’s Magazine contains some interesting incidents from Princess Salm-Salm’s ■.•If. concerning the closing hoars of Maximilian: ThePrince88, on account of the important part she had taken in thin plan to save the life of Maximilian, was sent to San Luis Potosi as a prisoner. There she made another last effort to obtain the pardon of President Juarez for the condemned. She says: { ' “The last day before the execution had oome —the next morning the Emperor was to be shot. Although I had little hope, still I determined to make one more effort to move the heart of the man who. alone had the power to prevent the terrible tragedy. The pale, melancholy face of him whose dear-blue, eyes had inspired with compassion even the Indian Falacois, was ever before me. “ It was eight o’clock in the evening when I went to the President, who immediately received me. He was pale and looked careworn. With trembling lips I pleaded for the life of the Em peror, or at least for a respite. He said that he conld not even grant a respite, that it wonld only prolong the Emperor’s agony, and that he must die the next morning. “When I heard these terrible words, I was wild with grief. I trembled in every limb, and, sobbing, I fell on my knees, and pleaded with words that came from the heart. The President sought to raise me, bnt I dong to his knees, and would not rise till he had granted my prayer; I thought I must move him to compassion. I saw he was deeply moved; he, as well as Senor Iglesia, who was present, conld not restrain his tears. He said to me; in a sad, tremulous tone, ‘It pains me, madame, to see yon thus on your knees before, bnt if all the Ung3 and queens of Europe were prostrate before me, I conld not save his life. I do not take it; it is the law— the people demand it, not I. If I failed to do the will of the people, my life wonld be the pen alty. “ ‘Oh,’ I cried, in my despair, *if blood must flow, take my life, the life of a usdess woman, and spare that of a man who may do so much good in another conntry!’ “All was in vain. The President raised me to my feet, and again assured me that the life of my husband should be spared. He said he was very seriously compromised and would cer tainly be condemned to death, bnt that, as I had gained his esteem and admiration by my efforts in behalf of Maximilian and my husband ha would grant my petition so far as he conld. He wonld pardon my husband, and was grieved that he conld do no more. I thanked Mm and went. “In tho anti-room, I found more than two hundred ladies of San Lnis, who had come to plead for the lives of the three condemned men. They were admitted, bnt their prayers were of no more avail than mine. “Later, Madame Miramon came, leading her two children. The President conld not refuse to see her. Senor Iglesia told me it was a heart rending scene to see this poor woman and her innocent little ones plead for the life of their husband and father. The President, he said, suffered terribly in these interviews to think that stern necessity compelled Mm to take the life of the nobles, Maximilian and his two‘broth ers,’ bnt he could not do otherwise. “Madame Miramon fainted and was carried ont of the room. “I conld not close my eyes that night, some honrs of which I passed in tho church with a number of ladies of our party, praying. “In the course of the morning, the telegraph announced the sad intelligence that the execu tions had taken place and—that all was over.” Tbe Macon Fair. ■While in Macon we gave ourself the pleasure of a call on Ool David W. Lewis, who is manip ulating so well the great Agricultural Fair, to come off in Macon on the 16th of November. He gave ns a good many items of information. The Laboratory building is nearly finished. The hands are patting the grounds in order. It is about two miles from Macon to the building. Trains will be ran every half hoar. The articles for exhibition expected, are num berless. From all quarters and all States appli cations have been received for room. Asteam- ship from New York, one each, from Baltimore, Philadelphia and Richmond, fully loaded with agricultural and stock implements, will come out. Several large steam engines will be brought. A number of large firms in Cincin nati will bring whole car loads. Tho railroads of Georgia, South Carolina rail roads, Manchester and Wilmington railroad, Memphis and Charleston railroad, Chattanooga and Nashville road, East Tennessee, Tennessee and Virginia roads, and others to be added, will bring passengers for one fare. Distinguished men from all parts of the Union have promised to come. Among the guests will be the following members of Congress: Thos. L. Jones, Ky; Geo. A. Halsey, N. J.; Hamil ton, Fla.; S. F. Cary, Ohio; A. H. Bailey, N. Y.; Geo. W. Cole, CaL; W. P. Kellogg, DL; John Poole,‘ N. O.; W. Mnngen, OMo; Jos. C. Abbott, N. C.; Fred. K. Stone, Md.; S. N. Pet tis, Pa.; Geo. W. Woodward, Pa.: John Co- vode, Pa.; James A. Johnson, Cal; A. McDon ald, Ark.; W. E. Niblack, Inch; J. A. Garfield, Ohio; Albert E. Paine, Wis.; Wm. Luff bridge, Iowa; Demos Barnes, N. Y.;. Geo. W. Julian, Ind.; Austin Blaine, Mich.; J. F. Asper, Mo.; D. J. Morrell, Pa.; P. Hamill, Ind.; Samuel J. Randall, Pa.; Samnel 8. Bordett, Mo.; John Scott, Pa.; John B. Donnelly, Pa.; J. Carson, Fa. Among others will be present, Geo. A. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury; Professor Holmes of Charleston College; David A. Wells, Commissioner of Revenue; Gen. Horace Ca- pron, Superintendent Agricultural .Bureau; Henry Bastard, Commissioner of Education; Brick Pomeroy, Editor of N. Y. Democrat; Gen. A. B. Eton, U. S. Washington official; Chas. A. Peabody, of Alabama; Gen. Beaure gard ; Gen. Jos. E. Johnston; and Ex-Governor Herachel V. Johnson. Many have declined. Many have not been heard from. We saw a vastbnneh of letters, one of which, Col. Lewis’ we publish. Among all the large number of replies, bnt one exMbite any feeling that seems unpleasant. All express a deep in terest in the Fair, and welcome it as an occasion for great good. Mr. Bontwell’s letter is singu larly felicitous and right tempered. And let ns hope that he may, by association with our peo ple, lose some of his advanced Radicalism. Mr. John Covode surprised us with his spelling, and we are disposed to think the muddled specimen of bad orthography creeping aronnd in the pa pers must be waggish tricks upon Mm. Ex-Gov. H. V. Johnson'R letter is a superb one, and we look for its publication with eager ness. One gentleman, the Hon. Mr. Edwards, mem ber of Congress from Vermont, says, “he will rejoice when the security of life and property in the South will let Northern people come.” This astute gentleman must be a reader of Dr. Ful ler’s Methodist Advocate and Swayze’s Union. This gentleman certainly needs the mollifying influence of a Press Excursion. Many of the persons who will be there are among the most distinguished men of both par ties North. They have been invited, they have accepted those unsought invitations in a kindly spirit; Southern hospitality must do its duty on the occasion, and the courtesy due guests of the the State must be shown them. Let onr people be polite without sycophancy, attentive without obsequiousness, and dignified without hauteur to these guests, whatever be their polities; let us show them Southern character in its best light—hospitable, conrteous, frank, energetic, generous—warm friends and magnanimous foe- men; chivalric and liberal; knowing what is due self-respect, but not carping or prejudiced; let the occasion be improved to fraternize with the good, and believe that great benefit will re sult beyond the mere physical consequences of the Fair. Mistakes may have been made in the extent of invitations, and perhaps other things, but we believe they were made honestly. Hence, it seems unfair to rasp them. Less harm will be done by letting them go than correcting them. We see by the Telegraph that, in response to a letter from 0. P. Culver, of Washington, Gov. Bollock says that he has no formal response from the Committee in reply to his offer of a train to go to Bristol to meet and bring visitors. Mr. Culver wants the Washington Press invited and brought on the train. We think the railroads will bring the press free. We doubt the propriety of any each move ment on tiie part of Gov. Bollock. We are not captions in this matter, bnt we think it tmneoee- sary, unauthorized and extravagant. We shall have more to say of the Fair here after.—Atlanta Constitution. Virginia Senators. Special Dispatch to the Lynchburp Republican.) Washington, September 27.—The Virginia senatorship is warmly discussed. Bets are made that John B. Baldwin and Alexander Rives will come to the Senate from Virginia. The latter gentleman has had Ms disabilities removed. The President would present his brother-in-law. Dr. Sharpe, and the husband of Mr. Dosglas’ widow, General Williams, bat he does not tshe enough interest in the matter. ■■ i I,.- , Lord Byron’s Fast Moments Valet’s Account. It is interesting, says the Pall Mall oUi* September 9, at the present time account given of the last moments of tZ? ^ ron by his servant Fletohor. Fletcher B - t ..his Lordship did not &ppear” y L. his dissolution was so near, I ooffidheJ 0 ' 11 ^ was getting weaker every hour, andhe~ , ’*> I gan to have occasional fits of delirium d 1 * terwarda said, “Inow begin to think T 11 rionsly ill, and in case I should be taken denty, 1 wish to give you several <£5-^ wMeh I hope you will be particular executed. I answered I would in case Jr 1 * event came to pass, but expressed a wfe? he would live many yeaa to execute them U * t better himself than l could. To thiT“ I ter replied: “No, it is now nearW v «--“‘H then added: “I must tell you all withonf 1 ^ a moment I then said, “Shall I R0 ' ^ ] and fetch pen, ink and paper ?” “Oh m r’ no; you will lose too much time, and 1 { not to spare, for my time is now short” ? his LordsMp; and immediately after • « 1 pay attention.” His Lordship commmJ'j?’ flaying: “ Yon will be provided for ” him, however, to proceed with thines consequence. He then continued- unt*** poor dear cMld! My dear Adah! U/, 6 ! conld I have bnt have seen her 1 Give h ^ blessing—and my dear sister her cMldren; and yon will R0 £T? ? ron and say-tell her everythin*. friends with her.” His LordshiD ^ to be greatly affected at this momem^^ my master’s voice failed him so ,1 , I conld only catch a word at intervals- bnt li 1 muttering sometMng very serionsiy f 0 7jl pt time, and would often raise his voi<« 1s “ Fletcher, now if yon do not execute der wMch l have Mven ■ hereafter, if possible.” Here I told his W? in a state of the greatest perplexity that n i not understood a word of what he had .7 wMch he replied, ‘ ‘Oh, my God! then aft? for it is now too late! Can it be possible vc- have not understood me?” “v.; said I, “but I pray you to try and intern i once more.” How can I? ’ rejoined my tZ ter; “it is now too late, and all ia over ” ‘r “Not our will, bnt God’s be doneaid hew swered, ‘‘ Yes, not mine be done, bnt 1 will t>> His LordaMp did indeed make several efforts j, speak, but could only repeat two or three wo-l ata time, such as “My wife! my child! m -2 ter! you know all—you must say all—you W my wishes.” The rest was quite umntelfijiy. Lord Byron shortly afterward fell into aW argy, which ended by death—his last intelb>; ble words being, “I must sleep now.” Thejf lowing extract from “Medwin’s Conversance's 5 ' Lord Byron,” will probably interest ]h Beecher Stowe. Speaking of Americans, k LordsMp said: Americans are the only people to whoa! never refused to show myself. The Yaniee are great friends of mine. I wish to be thought of on the other side of the Atlantic not that I am better appreciated there than tois; perhaps worse. Some American review.’ has been persevering in his abuse and pets®, ality, bnt he should have minded his ledger: h never excited my spleen. Speaking Oat. The New York Tribane has lost all futleasl with the engineering of the Administration a I the “rebel States,” and speaks out as follou [ The votes of several States are still needed ,'ij the pending Amendment; we have stood by nil seen that of Tennessee thrown away, aadril keep silence no longer. It was entirely pa* I cable to hav8 saved that State, even its | the insane quarrel which rent the party; had the Administration been allowed to I exert its influence and power to that end, i: I might have secured a pledge from the rebels en-1 franchised by Senter that they would rafcfr the I XVth Amendment. But it was virtaaIr.ciM.| strained to favor Stokes after he wasdeadeitisil any door nail can be; and the net resnlt 0! Ik I folly is the loss of Tennessee’s vote on the Sri | Question. We insist that there be no mere of this; fot 9 as the lean boarder told his landlady touchis I her bedbugs, “I really haven’t the blood a I spare.” We have nothing to say as to the lil erence of any Texas voter for Davis over Has I ilton; that is Ms own affair altogether. It h I vis shall be selected, very well; but if thelil ministration is made to remove and appcil Federal officers in his behalf, and thus to tio-l perate the Hamilton party so that a goodpvl of it shall be set against the Fifteenth Ameil ment, and if that party shall triumph, mum all the efforts made at Washington to defeat t| (which are just as likely to help as to hamjats the vote of Texas for the Amendment shall thnJ be lost, why then we shall protest against fel impolicy that finds favor in high places as litn- 1 short of idiotic. We repeat that the decisive triumphs of ftl Administration, if triumph it shall, must bedel ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment »l the funding at low interest of the national dels* Whoever favors the Fiftefenth Amendment hi virtual supporter of Gen. Grant, and, with: suspicious scrutiny of Ms motive, should he» corned and treated as such. A Governs cannot afford to narrow the platform on vtal it stands, nor to count no one its friend rtT does not love it for itself alone. Menrnk^ onr day by virtue of their common sense,* cannot long rale in defiance of it iutereatlug to the Disqualified The Washington Republican, a quaswi organ of the Administration, announces ia N issue of yesterday that the Attorney Genenj the United States has received notice of im portant decision which has recently been * dered by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. 1 decision ia that when a person has taken oath of offioe before the war to support the Cij stitntion of the United States, and during- war held an office in a State in rebellion *> required him to take an oath to support J Confederate States, such • a person cannrt j tois reason alone be said to have engs?M insurrection and rebellion against the States, or given aid and oomfort to the ene* thereof, in the meaning of section three*' fourteenth amendment. The Republican adds—and thia is som *, : cation .that the decision is not unfavorah.) ceived at Washington- “TMs decision will be found very imp and of large scope in reducing and limiting® franchising clauses of the Constitution u 1 of Congress.” Interesting News and Relics from ^ John Franklin Arctic Expedition.—3<' September 26.—The whalmg schooner 1 has arrived at New London from Cue Inlet with three men belonging to Dr. Hall’s expedition in search of Sir John R* Dr. Hall is a passenger on the shipi Ansell Wy for New Bedford. He has a number of belonging to Sir John Franklin, s’* 1 ® spoons and a chronometer box. Be *** , successful in finding skeletons of men and the remains of several ol obt Skeletons and other reties were fc®“ William’s Land. The Cornelia brought an anchor, extreme north, marked E. S., I* 1 ”’ supposed to have belonged to the fist e . Dr. Hall found a native who claims to ■ about the party. He says the ship w , and toe crew, took to their boats a ashore, where their provisions were t and they died from starvation. Re prevented Dr. Hall from making f°^ ” tions. He will return next summer «” prosecute the search. The Anseu 1 arrive in a day or two. Napoleon’S Disease. A late Paris lettter says:' “ The I getting on, nearly got well this tin 1 ® one of those ugly attacks under the t reoorded of whioh he came so near * in 1864. What definitely his chief®®“' ady is, cannot be assuredly asserted Im porter. His primary disease, inew*5i, in the long run, is, of course, chrono was born in April, 1808—can’t r ^’T that Item. Has chronic rheum sciatic and intestinal variations; n more general and well-nigh universal . troubles—if I may so express mT 8 *^ think I may, seeing that all hesitate in that regard. The the stone; more moderate Libert*^, gravel; politioal indifferent*and ^ gossips hold to hemorrhoids, ds* Bright’s disease.” Rota.—The City Council of Bom® ^ the following resolution: .,.1, Resolved, farther, That all °*P < ehmery employed in toe manufactur® and woolen goods, or agMejdtmm in the limits of toe city, shall be f a taxation ft* the period of tenyeam ^ of January next; provided the s*® ^ l employed within toe space of two j this date. — ^1 Gxxoul BataunmisD, it» * tehe a wife from cdd Virginia.
