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\vr ■ •. 4 .* »- «* .• toTC. fljl .4* a.?!* j The Greorgia, 'W'eekly Telegraph. jps. THE TELEGRAPH. HA0QN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 12, 1869. TtasBnaui of the Telbgbaph will ask the in- dnlfpnee of leaders till the mind can resume, to • some extent, a normal condition. When the a {factions'have been deeply woanded,it requires, for a considerable time, great effort to torn the attention to ordinary duties and channels of thought, to intense and morbid disgust of the • concerns of bonnes! affects no, which it requires a coo stant effort of reason to combat. It is true that the death of young children, lightly considered, is not an event to be mourned over. They have known and will know little more of existence than its unallowed delights. They have not lived long enough in this world to realise that St is a scene of ■death and decay— of sorrow. conflict and trial, ae well as of enjoy ment. Almost all of na can look ■ back upon the pre cise time when this gloomy and depressing con viction first dampened our young spirits, and we learned that existence itself was to some extent an evil. Bat when oar children escape from ■ the clay before such thoughts begin to engrave ■ the lines of care upon their beautifnl faces, we ought to persuade oarselves firmly that they have been favored of Heaven and have escaped the trials and dangers of a probation which might have been fatal to their virtue and hap- . piness. Bnt the loss of their society and the scenes • of their suffering and death harrow our sonls with a poignant grief, which time alone can . deaden. And as we descend the valley of life and approach the setting sun, every man expe riences an increasing sympathy, pity and affec- ■ tion—a growing reluctanoe to -inflict or to wit ness pain—a more earnest desire for the happi- • ness and welfare of all about him and a greater indisposition to controversy and-contention. This is all natural and right: the fruits should mellow in autumn. It is pleasant and natural that the light should soften as sunset approaches —and the sternness and rigor of meridian man hood shonld gradually abate, just as the snm- . mer winds subside in the evening. Neverthe less, these very facts make our bereavements . more painfnl at snch a period of life and jar ns all the more as we stagger onward in the weary ' track-of existence. Conductor O. Rencan. The Senior editor of the Telegraph desires, • in this public manner, to express his profound gratitude for the extraordinary sympathy and kindness displayed by Condnctor O. Teneau, to Mrs. C„ on the train from Angnsta to Macon - last Saturday night, dnriDg the distressing and subsequently mortal illness of her little boy. Mr.- Benean assnmed extraordinary responsibil- ties to afford relief to the suffering child—stop ping his train for that purpose and going him- - tell in quest of medical advice and remedies; And daring every possible moment all night long acting as a sympathetic, comforting and en- • cooraging nerse, and watching the child with the anxiety- of a father,* even while his own ' heart was bnrdened with solicitude for a sick child at home, whom be had been forced to leave in a dangerous condition. And I am as sured that Mr.. Reneau, wherever known, bears the generous, sympathetic, manly and chivalrous .Character displayed iu these extraordinary acts ■of kindness to mere strangers under his care as . condnctor.' I hope this pnbiic acknowledgment, if of no service to him in his fntnre career, will at least bo gratefnl to the feelings of his family and friends. J. C. Fire and dnupowder. The extraordinary .'spectacles now -exhibited in the Carolines of -men claiming to be whites and men of sense and intelligence, summoning military forces of negroes under pretence of keeping the peace, exhibit either a folly or a depravity equally unaccountable. The United States authorities, just at the close of the war—in the flush of triumph over their enemies—careless of-what ills befell them, and inflamed with a vindictive purpose to “ punish treason” and harrow the sonls of its enemies— to “rub sand in their eyes" after they were down as is said to be the custom of piney woods pugil ists—we say even the’United States—or rather, triumphant abolitionism—soon saw that negro soldiering in the Sonth-wonid notdo, unless they were willing to go into a war of extermination against the Southern whires. That, even if the whites were ever so mneh disposed to bear and snffer rather than provoke a conflict which would end in their own massacre, yet the igno rant and brutal license of the negro soldiery would have aroused a conflict, on such terms. Consequently, in a few weeks, all these sable guardians -of a pnbiic-order which must be founded on uninterrupted and unresisted license of the basest sort, were withdrawn in time to prevent universal anarchy and slaughter all over the South. How the revival of tho scattered experiments in Arkansas, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina, although attended in the two former States with frightful disorders, failed to evoke a general deluge of war and ruin, we are hardly able now to see. Probably becanse they were on too small a scale. A horn of gun-powder will produce an explosion, but still it may not shatter the whole fabric. ; But wherever iyou bring negro soldiers to dominate over white men in any capacity, or in any spot in North America, there yon will bring fire and gun powder together. An extremity of caution on the part of the whites against a conflict which must be attended with such disastrous results, may, for a time, keep the fuse wet, bnt the ex plosion is only a-question of time and chance. It is impossible that the brand of public indig nation should be too deeply burnt into the reck less white men, calling themselves Governors, civil or military, who will deliberately plunge society into such awful peril. There can be no Southern community in which justice, peace and order will not readily be enforced by the whites. Here or there, there may be cases in which a turbulent sprit may appear to be up permost ; but, when inquired into, there is not one wherein the great body of the white people will not be fnnnd ready to do justice and to es tablish tranqnility. How can it bo otherwise? The whites are The Blodgett Perjury Case.—The Chronicle -and Sentinel has information that the United •States Government, through its District Attor ney, will move a nolle prosequi on the indict ment against Foster iBlodgett for perjury com mitted in taking the iron-clad oath in the face -of the fact that-Blodgett had sought and held a military commission in the service of the Con federacy daring the war. FROM TALBOT COUNTY. Key art or th<- Cotton Crop-The True Poli cy—Wheat Sowing, etc.—A new Plow—The Macon Fair, etc. Talbottosj, November 22, 18G9. iEditors Telegraph:—The ootton -crop will cOrae fully np to previous estimates, one-half to two-thirds, and the nicest staple we have ever made in Talbot county. Nearly all cottons will clasrify middlings. I still advocate the policy Of every planter, that possibly can, of holding his ootton. It is not possible that three -millions can bo reached, and with all the favorable re ports from East India, Brazil and Egypt, it still appears that, notwithstanding receipts from foreign countries, cotton most still maintain good prioes, and the consumptive demand fall short of a full supply. India is slow to go into a heavy crop since her disastrous failure several years ago, and the Southern States could-Eve on low-prices while British India would starve to death. Let us take hope, then, for the fatnre of the Southern States, encouraging her agri cultural pursuits, developing tiio mineral wealth of her mountains and opening up new commu nications for commerce and trade. What we want are more factories to manufacture more of the-raw material at home, thereby increasing the . population of Georgia, adding wealth and power to her name. Next to ootton mills we shonld have direct steam communication with European ports and cities. These two ideas properly developed will make Georgia wealthy and independent. Here in Talbot county we have a number of eligible sites for erecting oot ton factories. There are no better places Gian Chandler and Smith’s waterpower and Gorman & Co.’s-mill. We need enterprising men to move in-this matter. As com is bound to maintain very high prioes, the country should plant largely of wheat, oats and rye. Now is the time to sow wheat. The best varieties should be secured, and the ground well prepared and fertilized. A new plow has been invented by Messrs. Bailey,'Fort & Co., of this county, which com bines great merit of easy carriage, economy-of labor and. adaptation to work. It tarns over and subsoils at the same time, one plow followed by the other, masking the most complete taming and -subsoil plow I have ever seen. I hope H will prove.au entire success. The Macon Fair will-be largely attended. Occasional. From Pulaski County. if a glean iiie following from the Hawkinsville Dispatch of the 4th: Gin-house Burned.—We regret to learn that the gin-house .of Mr. James Bohannon, who lives in this connty, somo six miles from town, was entirely consumed on the 23d ult The fire occurred in the day-time, and is sup- posed to have beon caused by the carelessness t» p^» bra. * n <m j 7. b ,. o :rl??..2^ 0 r ‘ , ! , J ' , - . ; — i smoking a pipe, aa a few minntae afterward the property of the country, and established families j a t arm was Riven. whose peace and comfort are paramount consid-1 erations. They may be too slow sometimes in checking the acts of vagabonds among-them who are under no such overpowering -motives to maintain the peace. If they are slow or indif ferent, surely they are awfully foolish and cul pable. Bnt they can be neither when the im portance of action is properly presented to them. Bnt a soldiery of black vagabonds, without a single suggestion of sense or interest to restrain them, quartering upon the whites and living by plunder, insolence and outrage is a thing which will madden a white population to a blind fury wherein all suggestions of prudence are lost in the stem necessities of self-protection. If Hol den, in North Carolina, succeeds in precipitating a conflict with his black legions, we hope there are whites enough to make a ease of him and relieve the necessity of any more such telegrams as were sent to us on the 2nd instant. A -Mas. Nobton, one of the strong-minded women, loves her husband She bad been in- -dnlging in a tirade against the horrible he's in general; bnt after she had got through abusing them, she added: “ Bnt, Mrs. President, I wish yon to understand that 'I am abasing men as a race. There is one of the vermin whom 1 re spect to a certain extent, and sometimes I al most persuade myself that I lore him: He is my husband.’’ Here the company hissed her outright. Black Bonnets.—We are informed, says the Montgomery M*ii, upon the most fashionable authority, that black velvet bonnets are to be the style this winter. A tasteful black bonnet called tho Medicis, has a high puff crossing from ear to ear, with a shirred frill faced with satin on the ba?k and front. An ostrich feather curls low behind, a malmaison rose with brown foli age is on the left, and a dotted knot crosses be neath the chin. Price, $10 only. It is reported that the Postmaster-General will recommend the abolition of the franking privilege, or, if that cannot be effected, then a large abatement of its privileges. He will not find the members of Congress ready to sanction this proposition. Emory and Henry College has now one hun dred nud thirty-five students in attendance. There are no vacant stores in Angnsta, and a number that are unfinished are occupied. Mss. Susan Prescott, widow of the late Wil liam H. Prescott, the historian, died in Boston on the lSihnlt. There never existed but one Mormon Irish man, and a Mormon Irishwoman is something totally unknown to naturalists. Another new Southern Methodist Church has been dedicated in Baltimore. There is a Sunday School numbering sixty- four children on Monnt Zion, in Jerusalem. Belle Boyd, late of Virginia, and well known during the war from her connection with the •Confederate secret service, has been sent to the .-California Insane Asylum. A •Californian exhibits a gun that fires three’hundred shots a minute. -. It is .stated that an air-line railroad from St, Louis to Louisville will be bnilt at once. Six inches of snow fell in Augusta, Mains, on •Saturday, w-. • - ' • Quails are now seeking winter quarters in the West. This is said to indicate a hard win ter. Nilsson, it is now rumored, will come to this country in 1872, under the management of Niblo’s. During the last fiscal year, 7C0 millions of let ters passed through the United States mails, forty millions more than during any previous year, and an average of twenty for every man, woman and child in the land. A fireman of the Central Pacific Railroad fell off the looomotive when traveling at a high rate of speed. After going ten miles the engineer missed him, backed np the train and found him asleep against the bank. Governor Peter T. Washburn, of Vermont, sets the example of short inaugurals, and de nounces usury laws and private legislation. Jamestown Island, the site of the first English Settlement in Virginia, has been recently sold lo ft Northern purchaser, for $11,000. Am immense balance-wheel, weighing forty-ftev- en thousand pounds, for a new rolling mitt, bf a Ja* been cast at a Louisville foundry. Henry Ward Bxsann has been making a wo man rights’ speech at the Hartford Female Con- A man in Oourtland oonnty raised • porker of ■neb unusual sice tfeti strangers wept opt of jlttWtoweit * Twelve bales of cotton wore also destroyed. Mr. B. says that - $3000 will hardly cover his loss. We understand that Mr. B., with indomitable zeal, haB already began tbe erection of a new structure upon the rnins of the old. What Was It?—Mr. D. C. Mann, the polite Ordinary of Wilcox connty, called on us last Tuesday, and told ns of a remarkable sight he saw the night before, r.bont seven o'clock, near the old McDuffie place, some twenty miles from here, while coming to this town. He says that a fiery body, resembling a meteor, suddenly shot ont from tbe northeast, and, after travel ing a northwest eonrse for about a minute, ex ploded, sending forth sparks in every direction. Mr. Mfmn states that he did not hear the explo sion till three minntes afterwards. It sounded like the firing of a cannon, and reveTbrated similar to the rambling of distant tbnnder. The light given oat by it is represented by Mr. Mann to have beon so brilliant that a pin conld have been picked np in $ie road. The Cold.—We never remember to have ex- BY TELEG-BAPH. from WASHINGTON. 'Washington, November 4.—The Cuban Commo dore, Higgins, is here. Mre.-Games leaves for Now Orleans on the first Of theanontb. • Revenue to-day $714,000. V Robeson has returned. •'The’President baa appointed D. B. White ae- seesor;for the fourth Virginia, and George Bobs for the second Tennesse district. ' DeUno. persists that pork packers are taxable as manufacturers, as much eo as cigar makers. The ship Golconda, belonging to tbe American Colonization Society, sailed yesterday from Balti more -for Liberia. She will stop at Savannah, to take aboard four hundred colored emigrants for Af rica. One hundred and twenty men of the Cuban steamer Lillian arrived at Key West yesterday, from Nassau, where tho Lillian was seized by the English authorises. The Herald says, editorially: “ She beats Bimttm, Mrs. Stowe is possessed of the genius for advertis ing in oneminent degree. Her vampire assault on Byrotk’8-ei8ter. is comprehensible now, that she ex plains that she has a book in press relating to By ron. .'She wanted to make a grand preliminary ex- citement to attract attention to her book, and did not care-what woman’s good name might stand in the way. •'What must the world think of a moralist who thus deliberately sacrifices the reputation of another ..woman, simply to pnt money in her own purge ?" : FROM NEW ORLEANS. New OiLEANS, November 4.—A report having been cirsnlated that Governor Warmouth had issned twe^nd a. half millions of bonds, of which there is nobffilfclrecoid, the Governor publishes a state ment that all bonds issued have been duly recorded bythe.Treasurer,and concludes: “One thing is certain, and that is, that not a single bond of tbe State has been issued without authority of law, dur ing -my administration, and the interest has been and will bo .promptly paid.” GENERAL NEWS. New York,’November 4.—Late returns show Nel son’s majority to be between ten and fifteen thon- sard. Senatorial retains are not all in. Giving the Republicans -three doubtful Districts, the Senate will be a tie; the Assembly is doubtful—the chan ces favor two Democratic majority. The steamer Euterpe has arrived from Havana. Her first mate died of yellow fever. The second mate, waiter, and-one passenger are down. The steamer is detained at quarantine. San Francisco, -November 4.—The emigrant trav el over the PacificRailroad is rapidly increasing. They are having heavy rains throughout Oregon. : Boston, November^.—Three hundred mechanics' and laborers havo been discharged from tbe navy yard. Auousta, November 4 Agricultural fairs are in progress at Eatonton and. Rome. Ex-President Johnson, who was announced to de liver an address at Rome, will not be present. Savannah, Novemberrd.—The steamer Zoe, which sailed from this port on August 14th, foundered in Cow Bay yesterday. The.vessel is a total loss. The cargo will probably be saved. OCR GREAT. STAPLE. Cotton Considered »s n Sonree of National 'Wealth—The Present and Fatnre or the Cotton Slates. FROM CUBA. Havana, November 4.—tDoBodaa has departed on an inspection tour and wffl be absent ten days. The Spanish bank has reduced its rate of interest to 4 per cent. Lands In West Georgia. We note the following reports of sales in -the Columbus Sun and Times of the 3d instant: The improved plantation of Perry Wimberly, containing 469 acres, twelve miles from Colum bus, $5,650. 450 acres of land on Hamilton road, eight miles from Columbus, $1,725 ; 424 adjoining $1400—all belonging to the estate of B. W. Clark, deceased. • -t 2081 acres of wood land, near Box Springs, $60. 303} acres of land on Lumpkin road, five miles from Columbus, $1000; 96} acres of land, four miles from Columbus, on same road, $260; 82} acres adjoining, $350; 6} acres adjoining. $10; plantation on Cusseta road, seven miles from city, known as Perry place, well improved, containing 227 acres, $2,380. S * The Pope plantation, on the Muscogee Bail- road, near Box Springs, 23 miles of Columbus, making a settlement of 900 acres, 400 of which are bottom lands, dwellings and out houses com plete, $10,050. The plantation of John T. Lokey, deceased, consisting of 6S0 acres of land situated six miles of Columbus and handsomely improved, was divided into three lots: 301} acres brought $3,- 390; 150 acres $1,700; 202} acres $3,700—total, $8,790. This foots np, errors excepted, 3,710 acres for $31,675—say about eight dollars and fifty- four cents an aero all round—probably all or the major part for cash. Snch a sale of miscella neous lots of land as this conld not, we think, have been approached a year ago, as cheap as it seems to be. Wo think a very rapid increase in the valne of Georgia lands lies just before ns, and believe in ten years from this time this en hanced valuation will pretty nearly or quite in demnify the loss by negro emancipation. perienced colder weather at this season, in this latitude, than that of the past few days. Ice has been formed on two or three occasions already ; whereas, a general thing, ,we have none till about Christinas. The heavy fnost have stopped all further growth of cotton, -potatoes, and vege tation generally. The River.—The river is as low, now, as it usually is in the summer. On a still night, the noise of the water rushing over the shoals can be plainly beard a mile distant. The i’ulaski Manufacturing.Company com- mcnce operations on the 10th. Thaengine, which is of 66 horse power, and capable of driving 3,000 spindles and 100 looms, is sheltered by a brick engine room, which will be covered with tin by our enterprising townsmen,.the Bram- bletts. AU the main shafting and driving wheels have arrived and been pnt up. The wool machinery has all arrived and is being rapidly put in its place. Tbe cotton machinery is nearly all here and.is also going up speedily. The wool cards, spindles and machinery are capable of working up l. r >0 pounds of wool per day. The cotton spindles'will work up 400 pounds of cotton per day. The. building has ample room for 3000 spin dles and 100 looms. The main belt is of double leather 20 inches wide. The buildings are all ready for the accommo dation of the operatives, of whom there will be 15 or 20 to sturt with. The company design manufacturing nothing bnt cotton.and wool yarns, and carding wool for customers, until next spring, when they will make all kinds of cotton and woollen goods. FOREIGN NEWS. Madrid, November 4 Topete insists upon re signing. London, November 4.—Francis Joseph and Victor Emanuel meet at Brindisi. Paris, November 4 Eugenio -lias arrived at the terminus of tbe canal. Something Death of an Aged Citizen—One Who had Seen Gen. Washington. We have to record the death of another patri arch of our city—one who connected tho slow past with tbe rapid present—one who moved quietly among ns, seen often upon our thor oughfares tottering along life's way with the feebleness and kindness of age, revered and re spected by all. We refer to Mr. Willis O’Ban- non. At tbe residence of bis son-in-law, Dr. Tuggle, on Saturday night, he stepped out upon the back piazza, waa seized with a vertigo and fell upon a brick pLvement, breaking his skull. He lingered until Saturday 8 p. is., when he died. He was buried last afternoon. Mr. O'B. has resided in this vicinity a long time, mostly at Dover, Ala. He was in his ninetieth year, hence he was born about 1780, nearly the close of the Revolutionary war. He could read the finest print withont glasi which he never used. He never took but one dose of medicine, and that was oil, and ob served to his friends that he was never bnt once nnder the influence of liquor. He was bora in Jefferson county, Virginia, in the vicinity of Charlestown, near Harper’s Ferry. He remem bered distinctly, when a boy, seeing General Washington. The General had come to his father’s house to see a horse, and took the boy in his onus. To his friends, Mr. O'Bannon has often remarked that the General was the hand somest, most imposing man he had ever seen. Mr. O'Bannon married ft sister of CoL B. L. Mott. One of hfedaughtera is the wife of Dr. Tuggle; the other the widow of the lamented and gifted Dr. Wingfield, and now the accom plished principal of the Female Department of the Public Schools of Columbus. It ever seems to os that in the death of every aged person a link with the past is broken. The long ago appears more like a dream when its reminders have returned to their native dost Their thongbts are merged with the shadowy, alow-moving aold lang ayne, and cling bnt feebly to the awiftly gliding now. Their gray hairs and halting steps cause instinctively the hand of the most careless to be raised to the hat in token of reverence.—OoL Bun. Cotton Manufactures In the South. The Augusta Factory has declared a quarterly dividend erf -five per cent., and the Graniteville Manufacturing Company a dividend of ten dol lars a share. These facts show what cotton manufacturing will do in tho Sonth. It is the most profitable .branch of industry in which cap italists can embark. Tbe manufacturing of cotton in the South is bound to become large and extensive. The surplus profits arising from the production of-the raw material will nccessa- sarily be invested-to a large extent in manufac tories. First, because no other investment will pay so handsome a profit; and second, because there will be nothing else to invest their surplus in. If laborers could fee multiplied by the mere force of capital, as was the case in the days of slavery, large amounts of each year’s profits would be invested in .labor and lands for in creased production. But this is not tbe case now. We have a limited supply of labor. No amount of production, no extent of price will enable planters now to increase the area of their crops. The surplus profits cannot lie idle. Cotton manufacturing the nearest approach to their life-long voca tions, and to this new branch of industry the mater portion of their money will be directed. In less than ten yean all the eotton grown in the Sonth will be required to keep the looms and spindles of the American miHers in opera tion. The Sonth will in that time require for her own mills a million bales, and perhaps mnch more. We are in onr infancy now in this branch of industry, and yet we find that the consumption of cotton the past year in the Sonth. era States reached 163,203 bales, while that of the North was 821,924 bales. The increased consumption of the North era mills last year over that of the previous year was only 22,107 bales, notwithstanding the demand for ootton fabrics is increasing in a greater ratio than the production of the raw material. The indications are that the Sowth will show a mnch larger inorease in consumption than the North, and bnt a few years hence this section will not be dependent upon the North for its ootton fabrics.— Nashville Union and American. About Executions in Japan. Correspondence Philadelphia Advertiser.] Off Yokohama, Japan, September 28. As a correspondent from this very interesting and strange land, it is my province, sometimes, to record customs that to the Anglo-Saxon may seem inhuman and barbarous. Such a scene I have witnessed within the past few days—a publio execution of criminals. The offenders were six' in number. The crime -of one was murder; the other five, petit larceny. The crime of nrarder was punished by crucifixion. A large wooden cross is erected, to which tbe offender is tied with wisps of straw, arms ex tended. The cross is placed in the centre and a little to the re&r of the group to be executed, the other five in stooping posture in front. The executionerapproached and pierces the side of the one to be cracified with a lance in the re gion of the heart. This is done several times; and his sufferings are at last ended by a dexter ous cut of a sword that severs the head from the body. The 'other five were decapitated one after the other, and evinced perfect indifference and apathy. The unfortunate belonged to the lowest cast of society. Their bodies remained three days exposed to the pnblio and elements before in terment. The public executioner seldom practices his skill upon the better grades of society, unless in cases of treason. The Government allows of fenders of higher rank the privilege of com mitting “hari-kari," or suicide. It must, how ever, be performed in pnbiic, and consists of making two deep cuts np and down and across tbe abdomen. The patient dies immediately. A person committing “ hari-kari” clears his character and that of his family from all stains and disgrace, no matter how heinous the offence committed. The “hari-kari” spectacles are very popular and common. As the Japaneso, like the Roman Emperor, ponish small offenses with death, human integrity has not, as yet, dis covered any batter or more effective punish ment for great crimes. The sole indifference with which they meet death is truly surprising. Prince Arthur does not have a very good ex ample set him by the officers of the Dominion, who now have the special duty of lionizing him, Some of the Canadian papers speak very plainly as to the condition in whioh the premier of the Dominion has several times found himself da ring the royal visit, whioh has rendered him un able to make use of the ordinary mesne of looo- motion. • ' i... - A options scene was witnessed the other day at St Petersburg, in Russia. The First Regi ment of the Imperial Horse-guards was drawn up in line, when a young officer, dressed in full regimentals, was led np to the Colonel of the regiment, who strati him in the face, took his sword from him, ordered him to kneel down, broke his sword over his head, told two other officers to tear off his uniform, and then had him dad in the ooarse uniform of a private of tbe line. The officer thus degraded had stolen money from one of his comrades, and commit ted a number of forgeries. A suit against a circus in Ohio dovelops the fact that the bad jokes of the down ore paid for at tiie rate of $75 a week. A max named Brock was reoently found dead on the grave of his wife, in Vandexbexg county, Another large party of female emigrants left Liverpool,Thursday, for QaebecU • • j-TH*reportthat Napoleon has suffereda re- Th* Duke of Genoa’s prospects in connection lapse ia denied- Rumors of changes in (he with the flpagtah throne continue to improve. French Cabinet are revived- Cholera Ravages-Four Hundred Deaths a Day. Calcutta, August 29.—Although at Umritsir, Agra, and several other places which have been attacked, cholera has sensibly abated, it is still raging in many districts in various parts of the country with fearful violenoe, and the total death rate is, at the very lowest estimate, 400 a day. Since 1858 there has been no hot season so fatal as the present to Europeans. All through the Northwest provinces the pestilence is mak ing sad ravages. At Gwalior the deaths are from 69 to 100 a day, and Sepree, Bhopar and Scboro are suffering heavily. The soonrge seems, indeed, to be steadily inarching along the Agra road to Bombay. At Indore the native Rajah has made the people offer sacrifices out side the city walls, with bare heads and dry chvpatties, but without any marked success, as upwards of 1,000 men have perished during the past three weeks. All through Malwa the hor rors of pestilence are aggravated by the priva tions of famine, especially among the thousands of pilgrims who have been visiting the shrine of Omcar. and are now obliged to remain in that district until the rains are over. From Southern India we hear almost equally gloomy ttdfaaa At Hyderabad the cholera has made terrible inroads, and at Madras and all the other main centres of population, it has had more or less victims. In the report of Mr. B. F. Nonrse, United States Commissioner at the Paris Exposition, we find the following: During ten years—1851 to 1860—the crops produced in the cotton-growing States, (cotton, sugar, tobacco, rice,, etc.,) not consumed at home, left a surplus of proceeds from sales amounting to about $1,200 000,000, an average of $ 120,000.000 per year, which, less the amount required to be expended beyond the borders for the oomforts and luxuries of life, shonld have been so mnch added to tho reproductive capital within tlio-e States. If one-half only was thus required, the other half, or $60,000,000 per year, shonld have been put to profitable use. Throughout the Southern States some inter nal improvement was in progress, chiefly in the form of railroads. In some States, as in Geor gia. these works had been largely extended. Cheaply bnilt and economically operated, they generally proved to be profitable investments, capable of rapidly repaying the loans incurred for their construction, which in many cases cov ered a great part of the cost. A large amount of banking capital was well employed, but this, when not owned abroad, was chiefly the product of the commission and other charges upon the produce of the country, and not to any considerable extent drawn from the accumulating capital of planters. The capital which had built the few cotton and other factories and the machine shops had also accrued chiefly from charges upon the produc tions of the country. What, then, was done with the $60,000,000, or whatever sum repre sented the true annual gains of agriculture in these States ? The statistics of population show pretty^ clearly that a great part of it was expend ed in importing slaves from other States. PRESENT AND FUTURE INCREASE IN SHE WEALTH OF THE COTTON STATES. When considering this subject in its economi cal aspectonly, special effects bearing upon in dividuals and classes are to be disregarded for the general results affecting the whole commu nity. :: Population is wealth. Money sent from Ala bama to Virginia, to increase the laboring power of Alabama, even by importing slaves at $2000 each, added in some degree to the wealth of that State. Bnt if laborers of equal productive power conld have been introduced, without ex pending anything for them, the capital ex pended in the other case would have been saved, and the community wonld have gained its use in some other form of productive power, as .in tools, machinery or animal labor, with which to supplement and increase the value of mannal labor. To the whole people of the State, that is just the difference in the invest ment, between importing a slave and importing a free laborer of equal capacity. There are other differences to the State, scarcely lesB im portant in an economical view, all in favor of the free laborer. Whatever the cotton produc ing States expended for slaves above the cost of importing an equal amount of free labor power was twice lost to the community. Reckoning the slaves in the cotton States prior to 18C1 at 3,000,000 in nturiber, of the average nominal value of $500, equal to 1,000,000 full hands, at $1500 each, we had an investment of $1,500,000,000; and to replenish this force a large snm, much needed for other uses, was an- nually drawn from the gains of those States. If, in 1860, the people, by unanimous con sent, had declared the emancipation of all those slaves, whether with or without compensation to those who had owned their service, there wonld hnve been neither loss nor gain to the commu nity, except as the change might inorease or di minish the efficiency of labor or the cost of its maintenance. There would have been no “an nihilation of property,” for the whole labor power wonld have remained as before, only it wonld have changed owners. While it is undoubtedly true that free labor is always cheaper than slave labor, when each is nnder its most favorable conditions, the demon stration of that truth needs more favorable cir cumstances than were found in the years 1866- 1867. It was not until 1863, the third season of tbe free-labor experiment, that it became gene rally successful in its operations and results. Then improvement appeared, and the harvest, abundantly supplying the people with cheap food, leaves a surplus stored up. for the fatnre. The profit arising from the sale of exportable productions of the same season will amount to ‘ 50,000; and a reasonable forecast of the fa tnre seems a promise of equal gain in some of the succeeding years, the increase of quantity compensating for any redaction of price. The annual gain, be it fifty millions or two hundred and fifty million, is no longer to be wasted in the purchase of labor, when as good, or better will be obtained without purchase; yet the capital must be employed and will seek in vestment For some years very little will be needed in opening fresh lands, of which there is already too mnen open for the labor applica ble to it After meeting the demands of agri culture it will seek other profitable uses, as in banking, railroads, manufactures, machine shops, and the other active employments which capital finds for itself. Prominent among the improvements, that of reconstructing the levees and reclaiming the most fertile of cotton and cane lands should be one of the first, and right ly conducted, one of the most profitable for tbe employment of money. ‘ : WANT OF LABORERS. Now that capital is returning into the cotton States, the great want there wiU be labor, a bet ter use of what, they have and more of it, to ex tend their profitable agricultural business, yet carry forward the other works which will be re quired. So far; the prevailing conditions in the Sonth have not been attractive to immigrants. Poor crops, dear food, destitution of the com mon laborer, and these evils too often aggrava ted by disorder and violence, were reported dar ing the years 1866 and 1867. The prosperity of 186S stands in marked con trast to the adversities of the two years preced ing. A similar prosperity repeated in succeed ing years, until it shall be regarded as the rale and not the exception, supported by assurance of peace and safety, will turn tbe tide of emi gration freely from the Northern States and from Europe to the cotton growing States. During the present year the Pacific Railroad will be completed and opened, a highway by which the Chiuese .and other coolies or Asiatic laborers may reach the cotton fields of the United States. They are industrious, frugal, quiet and nn- merous. Exit Blonde*—Brunette* the Fashion* able Rage. )( ; From the New York World.] f, MB It is intimated that the blondes are not to have it all their own way this winter, as they have had for several years past. The brunettes, instead of dyeing their hair a dingy yellow, and daubing their «Bm until their complexions looked like new starch, have wisely determined to stidc to their own brilliant and natural attrac tions, and fight it out upon that line. They have discovered that their utmoet efforta only succeeded in producing a hideous sort of gen eral resemblance to the blondes, who were thus left masters of-the field, superior to competition or rivalry, .--.rij • cf «::.•.>/ si. This supremacy received a great blow, how ever, a few weeks ago, at a grand wedding which was considered as inaugurating Ihei fash ionable season. The beautifnl bride, though not strictly a brunette, was not at all a blonde, bnt the four bridesmaids, all exceedingly loveiy, were all decided brunettes, and wore in their dark tresses only the scarlet flowers of the sweet-eoented geranium. Their dresses were triumphs of art and taste. They consisted of white tulle, bouillonne, trimmed with white sat in paniers. The boqnets of scarlet flowers were placed on the left side at the bodiee. Idolatry is reported to be on. the wane in India. The people in the Southern provinces have lately discarded the sained monkeys. LETTER FROM TEXAS. Courts — A Judicial Muddle-Polities-Tbe ( bailees Best for Davls-A neiuoeratic Faux Pits—Jodjre Love—Weather—Sn^ar Making. Richmond, Texas, November 1st, 1869. Editors Telegraph: A long interval has elapsed since I wrote—longer than onghi to occur in correspondence making any pretension to regu larity. • ■ . With the close of last week, we closed a term of two weeks of onr District Court,'bnt without getting folly through with either docket. Three or four freedmen, tried by jurymen of their own color, go to the Hnntsville institute, some times called the penitentiary, for terms varying from two to six years. The darkies are down on their own color for jnrors. They say a ne gro does not know how to give an accused party “ the benefit of a doubt.” There may be some truth in this. I know they are pretty generally convicted. No whites were tried before colored jnrors. , , • As yon and yonr readers know, all or. nearly all the civil officers in the State have been re moved within a short period of time, throwing the business of the country connected in any way with oonrtBof law, including Reconstruction Acts “and any,” into the nicest sort of a mud dle for Pliladelphia lawyers, so famons for their legal acumen, to take hold of and straighten out, if they can. Bat I apprehend that - even these famons functionaries wonld meet with their match in the tangled mazes they would encoun ter in the new order of things. - Since the nomination of Hamilton Stnart for Governor, the political situation is not so easy of solution as it was. Davis, backed by the ad ministration, General Reynolds’ bayonets, and piles of money, lavishly need, ought to feel some what seenre. If defeated, it will be a memora ble triumph of mind and right, over force, fraud and might. o > * eedoria-cri ton Although there is no man in the State I.wonld sooner see elected, or make, a better Governor than Stnart, if there was any hope he conld only be elected, his nomination at the time it was made was a political faux pas, and the sequel will show the correctness of the assertion. We had onr enemies divided. The breach might have been widened, and should have. been. The Democracy had everything to gain, and nothing to lose by letting the election go nominally by default. But there are self-willed “impracti- cables ” everywhere and in all parties. -Per haps we are not worse off than others. The city of Galveston contains a most re markable gentleman in the person of Judge Love. He fought at the battle of New Orleans, a scrimmage of some importance. At theclose of that business, he returned to his native oonnty in Kentucky, where he studied law, and served several years in the Legislature. He served four years in the United States Congress. Bnt tho Texas revolution breaking ont, he came here at once, and reached here ; just in time to take part in the battle of San Ja cinto. He has served Texas in various civil ca pacities, chiefly on the bench. When the Con federate war broke ont, he joined Terry’s famons Texas Rangers, went with them to Vir ginia. participating in all their toilsome marches and glorions achievements. He is considerably over seventy years of age, perfectly erect, walking with a steady, firm, elastio tread. The passer-by in the street wonld take him for abont forty-five yet re of age. What State can beat that? . .ijv'i.tfw - The first of last week we had four days of cold weather, for the latitude and season, bat no frost. • • , .bid- .ii ; * Sugar-making is progressing in good earnest, and the ponderous rollers, driven by the giant steam, are crushing the saccharine juice of the cane with a force and speed gratifying to the lovers of sweet things. Par Fois. AFRICA. D . r *'w*a^~3irs*i ■«! London, November I i A special news letter, marked l» I. “i private,” addressed to the London N Herald, and dated at Zanzibar on the q! 51 tember, states that the writer had ^ 0,4 conveying ^information that on tU? vions letters had been received bvtJl Consul at that place from Dr. Litm!* explorer.. The communications tbe 8th day of August last. 16 Dr. Livingstone was in good health. 3 He spent the year previous exnlor^-.. tion of country lying south ot Tan^f which he found to contain tion 1 which he found to contain many or inner lake fountains, which he 1 the true sources of the river Nile ** IBl Dr. Livingstone states that he had h Bioji from Zanzibar for his nse >1, been received at a time pterions’ to m there, so as to have them early and ii them beneficial. In these letters J thejj that further supplies of necessaries be d ^ to him, including nautical insh-Ji!?" 1 copies of English almanacs for the „ and 1870. This fact indicates. t V 4 ** H that the Doctor purposed renuiJ^f** country for a lengthy period of Zt* 14 1 ticularly as he has given no idea tions for the future, and has not - 018 whnt place or point of the posed to come out on his jonrnev hZ * The lettets are written in small per which Dr. Livingstone bego^Tw Arabs, who conveyed the written dornT® 4 the coast for transmission to EnglMi ttatl 1 The communications are exceedinelv so far as regards general news. 6 3 Th* Empress Eugenie <„ liople—A Native VroeeLi Mosque-How He* rtnjestj D„ t91 A telegraph report from Constantin, the 16th of October, supplies the f<3S tails of the visit of the Empress of tho'"* to the Ottoman Conrt; Yesterday the Empress Eugenie from a window of the Dolmabachtsche"1H the imperial procession to mid-day rmxJh Mosque of Beshiktach. The itaiuj ‘ horseback, attended by a brilliant escort sequently her Majesty received the menu! the diplomatic body and their wives at theB* lerbey Palace, and then steamed np th* Jj B ms in the Saltan’s yacht to witness the nade to. the sweet waters of the Asia. Tfce , er waa splendid and the scene very intern There were innumerable caiques and vachtsl the water, all gaily decorated, and thousands J persons assembled on the shore, indndito j cream of the female Tnrkish aristocracr Turkish women of the middle classes in bn costumes, on foot and in carriages, besides!. Arabs and Europeans. The Empress ands. suite landed from state calqnes at the Snlt«d kiosk, mid there a mtilitary reception toot p music being played by tho band. Her Majesty, who was dressed in a yellowu lilac dress, and wore a yellow plume andfcsta a black lace mantilla, appeared on the halm of the kiosk, and afterwards passed sen times round the sward and up the valleriij open carriage, preceded by high Turkish’dd tones on horseback. She afterwards v?ui] foot among tbe Tnrkish ladies, and after ren. lag several minntes in conversation with t embarked with her suite in a state caique, r by fonrteen men. On tbe return to the Bi bey palace, the grounds were lighted up. u the iron-clads and men-of-war up the: were illuminated. A lady was recommending to a gentlemsi medicine for the gout. “I know rim • praise it to the skies,” said she.- “Ko do: madam,” he replied, “for it has sentwtti the skies to praise it.” The Church of the Madeleine, in Paris.* of the finest and richest in Europe, cost $3.10 000 to build. Tax ghost of King Solomon, if the spin could raise it, would admit that there is som “new under the sun.” PHAL0JTS VTTAUifl SALVATION FOR THE HAIR, is thorough s inal. There has been nothing like it since tal gan. It is tbe only transparent and harmies* in existence that will restore the natonlttai gray hair, without discoloring the akin. nov7-eodlw Who WiisSIm*?—A Sleeping Car Story. Correspondence of the Evening Post. ] Washington, October 21.—It is true, as well as funny and instructive. I allude to the sub joined, statement. A common friend of outb on a recent occasion found it necessary to take a night train from New York to Washington.— He secured and paid for a private apartment in one of the sleeping care. After spending the first, part of the evening with some friends in the smoking car he became drowsy and sought his sleeping place. On arriving there he found a stalwart person in female attire, who had thrown off her shawl and was making herself at home. The gentleman was astonished, and soon entered upon an explanation. After talk ing fifteen minutes according to the ordinary rales of politeness, he found that the intruder had no idea of migrating. . He then remarked that he was sleepy, and wonld retire. “As you please,” said the stranger. “Bnt this is my room,” added the gentleman, “and I intended to go to bed right here.” “All right,” returned the stranger; “I looked everywhere, and this is tbe only room I found unoccupied. I cannot walk to Washington, and to sleep in this room I am not .afraid.” Remonstrances were of no avail. In his desperation, the gentleman order ed his bed made, in due time he threw off his coat, and retired to compose his feelings and his litnbe; and just as he was about falling into a doze, lie looked up, and lo! the stranger was carefully making ready to do likewise, and she did, “lie down in her loveliness.” And that person was one of the strong-minded women of the age, whose name is perpetually appearing in papers. This is true, and is one of those facts which put fiction to the blush, albeit the heroine of this story has probably not been honored with a blush since her childhood. The conduct of that woman strikes me as a greater marvel than the telegraph. .• 7’flH Sales iu Troup County. A great deal of property was sold at this place on Tnesday last. A large number of peo ple were in town. Indeed, it was the biggest sale day we have had since the war, and real estate sold at better prices than since Sherman’s grand march through Georgia. Troup connty' is certainly looking up. Our people are im proving financially, if we may judge by tbe prices paid for lands. The biggest operation, however, was a private sale. The well-known, plantation, formerly owned by Hr. M. Ferrell, deceased, containing about 1100 acres, and located on ornot far from the Chattahoochee river, in this connty. was sold by Col. J. H. Fannin to CapL F. A.’ Frost for $11,000. The following sales were publicly made by administrators and executors: Estate of George H. Traylor.—The home stead, 303 acres, sold to L. B. Lovelace at $810 per acre—or $2454 80. The second place, 350 acres, sold to the same person at $12 per acre— or $4200. The third place to same at $7 per acre—$2400. The whole possessions of 1003 acres were sold for $9104 SO. Estate of Benjamin Shepherd.—The- home stead of 692 acri s, with a two-story dwelling of ten rooms and six fire places, was sold to Dr. John S. Hill at $11 60 per acre—or $7626 20. Estate of Giorge \V. Humphrey.—Lands be yond the river, Antioch district. The Bond place of 91 acres sold to G. 5V. Humphrey, Jr., for $1G20 cash. Another place of 115 acres, known as the Jack Young Place, poor improvements, was knocked to Jesse Bennett for $1224 cash. Still another place of 120 acres, common im provements, was sold to J. W. Freeman for $726. " i ajt Estate of L. H. Hearne.—Near the river, Pool’s district, containing 250 acres, sold J. T. Hearue for $5005—half cash, balance one year’s time—$20 05 per acre ! Estate aj William Hammett, Sr.—Upperpart of the connty. One parcel of ISO acres sold to D. A. Philpott at $11 per acre—or $1980. An other piece of I !2 acres to R. W. Brown at $5 per acre—or $560 A woodland peice of 50 acres to same at $19 75 per acre—or $987 50. A frac tion of lot, 34} acres, to same, $206. Estate of Thomas Bradford.—A lot of 162 acres to S. H. Dunson at $5 30 per aere-r-ot $858 60. Estate J. T. Boykin, Sr.—Only a tract of 150 acres was offered, which was sold to J. T. Boy kin. Jr., at $1030 per acre—or $1545. Estate of hr. N. jV. Smith.—The homestead in LaGrange, located but a short distance from the Rquare, a large two-atory building, and »bout 100 acres of land, was bid off by Dr. J..F. Moreland for $6,800—half cash and balance twelve montes credit. Office bnilding on the square, containing two rooms, at present occu pied by the purchaser as a banking offioe, was knocked down to F. A. Frost for $2000. A fraction of 3 1 -5 acres of land was sold for $75 50 per acre, or $341 60. Beta eofJ.J. Walker.—Homestead, six miles Northeast of LaGrange, 506} roree, with good single story dwelling and other improvements, was sold to Col. B. M. Young at $9 25 per acre —or $4,675 12}. Estate of'1 homos Jennings.—Eight or ten miles Northeast of town. The homestead place, 580 acres, was sold to A. B. 'Williams at $11 per acre—or $6,380. Another settlement of 343 acres was sold to the same at $9 50 per acre $3,258 50.—LaGrange Reporter. PratTLEa on the face and blueness around ths removed by the use of Milk of Violets. Tbe jee tnl and pleasing whiteness which it giTes to the s truly marvelous—delighful beyond expreesioni so cooling in hot weather. Sold by all droggietn foncy gooda dealers. What is the beet and safest preparation to: gray hair to its natural color, but not dye it.- i Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. oct7-eod<twlw c '*' o MALARIOUS FOGS. Countless millions of cubic feet of miiiriooi por reek from the motet earth every hours daring the month of November. TbU r rated moisture is tbe active principle vhich t fever and ague, billions remittents, ind^geetien. > entery, bilious cholic, rheumatism and msn; ■’ ailments which prevail more generally in than at other seasons, and some of which, a swampy regions and new clearings, take the ■’ of virulent epidemics. The best eafegnirch these complaints, as evidenced by the eipcri# a long series of years, is HOSTETLER'S ST® BITTERS, tbe most pleasant and at the the most efficient of all vegetable tonic*, "j vigoration of the system is m&DifeeUy means of defending it against the cause* o!» whether constitutional or casual. Nature,« " pathologist knows, is the most determined of disease, and the paroxysms of an tcuiea are in most instances the consequences is * forts site makes to conquer the foe. The Ject, .therefore, of preventive treatment b* foree’the system, and it ia accomplished t' rapidly and safely by the use of K0S BITTERS. This powerful tonic contain* n* apartment and corrective principle. It »**, valuable as a regulator and purifier thw**] vigorant, and there is- no danger of brain or ovor-stimnlating the circulation 6;“* ing it as an antidote. Be Beautiful. If yon desire beauty, 1 use Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. It gives a soft, 1 refined, satin-like teitcre Complexion, removes Rooghnees, Bedi Sanborn, Tan, etc., and a tinge of P* tbe plainest features. It brmg* Youth to the fading cheek, and chm* 6 * Country Girl into a Fashionable City Beiw- In the nee of the Magnolia Biim Be* tM ( cret of beauty. No lady need coopin' 10 plexion who will invest 75 eanta in t** article. to to' Icon’s Jtatbairon is the hart nee. 0011 Stir 1 : A Western paper says that one of its neigh bors “deals on the cash principle. It gives no credit.” A storehouse recently fell into Cayuga Lake, New York, and spilled 15,000 bushels of grain into the water. .u '£<»wVi««C )&■'** 'miM A young man from Ohio has succeeded in making a canoe trip from one end of Lake Su perior to the other. 1 An Eastern wit wants.Miss Dickinson to name her Sait Lake lecture “Across the Inoontinent.” Bugham Young has five thousand pounds qt wives and ohildren. Paupa travel* with three hundred .and ntiie pieqos qf baggage. On* of the Saved.—When the Stonewall took fire Anna Gurney rose np from her bed, and shortly after went overboard. She held to a spar, and floated nnder the boat, where she was comparatively secure. There was a man with her on the spar. After a long time they were taken off by a boat, which came from a landing a mile and a half distant. The man died as soon us he reached land. When Anna landed she fonnd her husband there bale and- hearty and dry. He and ten others cut the yawl loose—a yawl which would have oarried forty persons, and Went ashore. Onoe on land they made no offer to go back and assist tbs strag gling passengers, bnt stayed there and saw them die. Anna Was justly very severe upon her hus band, who ran off. with the boat, and Ae de clares she will live no longer with him.- Any Court in Missouri would give her a divorce on l fi^MauL Olax*A the ground of this cruel abandonment , T_ ~ The ease of the 8tonewall brings to Mabi seve ral inatsnoea of the most heartless maid selfish inhumanity. One steamboat passed the Stone wall while she waa burning, bnt made no effort to render assistance. The people Of tbe neigh borhood ore waiting foT the retaipofthe' ^ order to the ■ Jenmalif REDIVIVUS! The 8.8. S. of 1* Or Dr. JEU80NB Original South*** flxnur for Children Trammo, is *0* tsted! It is a Corrlgent of the Bee* contingent upon this period; s tines a nutritious Syrup ; end s 3 tntu J J iruWjng calm and refreshing report, pernicious and distreesiiig wsotioD* r T®T' of the nervoas system that resalt* tion of moat preparations—«¥ r drtn. its use in the Southern ae 1869. ratoblteheditswpotstien- etitntien, and, aa a medkana uanj ing the best- and safest prepare** teething, ensuring bw* to norais* — n relief *nd strength to their rnfanW- ^ no new medieini, and needs no is beet known. jEFwy precaution to preserve end protests from ft**® fettft JAinmtne^uturedomlyet»s efOcara, TwrajmA Peso, ceesomto the old estafctishedSoi^^Tg of HauhaTi, Bout A Sxkbx*\ Aj, street, New York, to whom sU Dragghta be**’ UXFSKCHIXFTIW ffC flora* fifty thousand boxesoi Dr. PiUa have been sold, and netsw If yen want* safer '