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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST- LOCAL DEPARTMENT, Georgia Baptist Convention. * Friday, April 24 —P. M. The convention met in the Greene Street ' Baptist Church at 3, p. tn. The former officers were re-elected by aecia- I mation : P. H. Mell, D. D., President, and J. I F. Dagg, Secretary. In the absence of Rev. T. H. Stout, Assistant j Secretary, Rev. E. H. Warren was re-elected to ; that position by acclamation. The President then addressed the conven- | tion, urging the members to renewed zeal and . confidence in their great work, despite all seeming discouragement. The following named delegates then re- i ported : ASSOCIATIONS. Appalachee —B. 8. Sbeates, W. H. Stiick land, G. A. Nunally. Central—W. T. Brantley, E. W. Warren, G. C. Conner, 8. Boykin, F. M. Haygood, T. J. Burney, J. M. Springer, J. H. Calloway. Clarksville—K- H. Watson. Flint River—D. W. Gwin, W. G. McMichael, A. B. Sharpe, D. Shaver, R. M. Nott, J. C. Binns. Georgia—P. H. Mell, J. H. Kilpatrick, E. A. Steed, J. A. Carter, B. M. CallowaW. R. Young, P. B. Robinson, H. A. Tupper, 11. H. Tucker, T. B. West, J. R. Sanders, T. Stocks, W. A. Overton, J. 11. Fortson, R. L. McWhorter. Hephzibah—W. J. Hard, G. W. Evans, W. L. Kilpatrick, W. H. Davis, E. R. i Carswell, D. B. Plumb, J. H. Cuthbert, M. P. Cain, H. H. Hickman. Rehoboth—Daniel Sanford, J. F. Dagg, J. L. Blitch, W. C. Wilkes, J. J. Toon. Washington—W. J. Harley, J. J. Brantley, J. G. Holtzclaw, J. T. Wingfield, L. Fowler, A. 8. Morgan. Western—J. C. Pitts, JF. Awbrey, H. C. Kennedy, L. M. Daniel, J. H. Hall, A. R. Cal loway. Stone Mountain —H. F. Buchanan, W. D. At kinson, E. Steadman, J. 8. Echles. Columbus —M. J. Wellborn. Sarepta—A. Chandler, H. F. Ivey, L. R. L. Jennings, L. W. Stephens, J. D. Matthews, S. Lumpkin, J. B. Hardeman, T. B. Moss. . Bethel—J. H. Underwood, T. W. Stout. Ebenezer—G. R. McCall, M. N. McCall. MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. White Plains—J. W. Ellington. Ladies’ Missionary Society, Marietta—W. L. ■ Mansfield, D. B. Hamilton. Madison Missionary Society—D. E. Butler, j Rome Missionary Society—J. C. Brown, Chas. E. Hill. Greensboro Missionary Society— J. L. Brown. Augusta Missionary Society—E. Mastin, D. R. Wright, N. B. Moore. The reporters of the Chronicle * Sentinel and the Constitutionalist were invited to seats in the convention. The order of business as printed in the minutes of 1867 was adopted for the present session. The following committees were appointed by the President: On Preaching—Cuthbert, Wright, W. .1. Hard, J. R. Sanders, Steadman, Burney and G. W. Evans. On Finance —H. H. Hickman, T. W. Callo way, and C. E. Hills. The following named Ministers were invited to seats in the convention : James Barrow, H. A. Williams, J. Hillman, T. A. Reid, J. P. Meal ing, J. H. Underwood and T. H. Stout. The hours of Session were adopted, as fol lows 9 o’clock, a. m., to 1, p. m., and from 3 o’clock, p. m., to 5, p. m. Rev. J. P. Boyce, D. D., was recognized as the representative of the Southern Baptist Theolo gical Seminary. Rev. M. T. Sumner was recognized as corres pondent of the Board of Domestic Missions. The reports of the Executive Committee and of the Treasurer of the convention were read and the former referred to a committee : D. W. Gwinn, W. H. Davis, W. J. Harley, J. W. Ellington, J. C. Brown, T. B. West, W. D. Atkinson. The report of the latter was ordered to be printed. We extract the following from the report: Permanent Fund for Education, $18,789 07 ; Orphans, Fund, 81,618; Permanent Mission Fund, 8219 55; The Heom Legacy, 86,276 54; General Purposes, $lO 85; Indigent Ministers, $8; Town Lot Fund, $519 60. Total, 827,441 71. On motion of Rev. J. H. Cuthbert, Resolved, That a half hour be consumed each morning in devotional exercises, beginning at 11 o’clock. The following correspondents were appoint ed : To the Alabama convention : J. J. Toon, J. C. Conner and 8. C. Boykin. South Carolina convention : W. J. Hard. Virginia General Assembly: G. C. Connor and D. W. Gwinn. The convention adjourned to 9 o’clock Sat urday. Saturday, April 25. The Convention was opened with prayer by Rev. J. P. Boyce. The Moderator appointed the following com mittees : On Deceased Ministers.—L. R. L. Jen nings, George Stapleton, J. 11. Hall, F. M. Haygood, W. A. Overton, E. R. Carswell, B. M. Calloway. On Missions.—J. J. Brantley, Asa Chandler, J. A, Carter, H. F. Buchanan, W. G. McMichael, Wm. Cooper, M. N. McCall, Jr. On Education.—John Milledge, J. 11. Ivey, W. L. Mansfield, H. C. Hornady, D. B. Hamil ton, L. W. Stevens, W. L. Kilpatrick. On Nominations.—Daniel B. Sheate, R. L. McWhorter, J. O. Pitts, J. J. Pearce, J. G. Holtzclaw, H. Evans. Received the new Sunbury Baptist Associa tion as a member of the Convention : S. Lan drum, W. H. Starks, H. A. Williams, D. G. Daniell. Received the report of the Board of Trustees of Mercer University and referred it to a special committee of one from each association, consist ing of J. H. Kilpatrick, G. A. Nunally, 8. H. Stout, M. 8. Wellborn, J. J. Toon, J. C Binns, W. H Davis, J. L. Blitch, W. J. Harley, A. R. Calloway, J. D. Matthews, G. R. McCall, D. G. Daniel, K. H. Watson, W. D. Atkinson, M. N. McCall, Sr. Rev. M. T. Sumner addressed the convention in behalf of the work in which the Domestic Mission Board is engaged. The claims of the Christian index. were pre sented by Rev. Dr. Shaver, the editor, and by Rev. Mr. Mansfield. In accordance with the order adopted by the convention, a half hour was spent in devotion al exercises, Rev. Mr. Warren conducting the exercises. Rev. T. A. Reid, Missionary of the Richmond Board to Central Africa, presented the claims of Foreign Missions. On motion Rev. W. D. Atkinson, a commit tee of one from each Association was appoint ed to nominate delegates to the Southern Bap tist Convention, consisting of Brethern W. D. Atkinson, B. 8. Sheats, T. J. Burney, K. H. Watson, D. W. Gwinn, E. A. Steed, W. L. Kil patrick, W. C. Nclkey, W. J. Harley, A. R. Calleway, M. J. Wellborn, A. Chandler, J. L. Underwood, G. R. McCall, M. N. McCall, Sr., S. Landrum. Rev. J. H. Cuthbert presented the following, which was adopted: In view of the peculiar trials of the times in which we live, we deem it proper to re.-affirm our confidence in the WORD and PROVI DENCE and PROMISES of GOD, and to re commend to our people moderation in all their earthly pursuits and relations, and a renewal of Christian fellowship among all the true follow ers of Jesus. Rev. 8. Landrum offered a resolution re specting the support of beneficiaries which, on his motion, was referred to the Committee on the Executive Committee’s report. Adjourned to three o’clock, p. m. Convention met at three o’clock. Opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Young. The next session of the convention was ap pointed to be held at Cuthbert, on Friday before the fourth Lord’s Day in April, 1869. 8. J. Burney was re-elected Treasurer of the convention by acclamation. On recommendation of the committee, W. H. Davis was appointed to preach the introduc tory at the next session ; M. J. Wellborn, Al ternate ; 8. P. Calloway to preach the sermon on Education ; R. W. Fuller, Alternate. The former executive committee was ap pointed by acclamation : T. H. Starks, T. J. Burney, D. E. Butler, B. P. Robinson, W. G. Woodfin, W. E. Milette. The report of the Special Committee on the report of the Executive Committee was adopted. The amount in the hands of the Treasurer of the convention for indigent ministers was, by vote, given to Rev. J. Barrow. The announcements for Sunday’s services were made by Rev. J. H. Cuthbert. On motion, the convention adjourned to nine o’clock, Monday morning. The closing prayer was offered by Rev. H. A. Tupper. The Riot Thursday.—Our city was in tensely excited Thursday afternoon, and but for the cool courage and undoubted bearing of Mr. Jno. A. Christian and the patience and self possession of the whites, there would have been a scene of bloodshed that might have sufficed the insatiable thirst of the rankest Radical in our midst. The day had passed off quietly up to about 5 o’clock, at which time there were about three hundred negroes and about seventy five whites in the Court House yard, crowding around the steps, waiting the closing of the polls, all peaceable and orderly. About this time the military Mayor of this unfortunate city—the man appointed by Gen. Pope as chief conservator of the peace—came out of the Hall and, standing in the portico, flourishing a roll of greenbacks, offered to bet one thousand dol lars that Bullock was elected. This brag, from the chief Loyal Leaguer, enthused the negroes, who cheered lustily. The whites then cheered for Gordon and others. One irreverent individual cried out: “You I a d perjured son of a b , you had better pay off your police with that money.” From this time to the closing of the polls there was considerable chafing. When the polls were closed, Bryant, we learned, advised his friends to go home. The same advice was given by Mr. Christian and Major Crump to the white citizens present. This last named gentleman had just left the Court Yard in company with Mr. G. A. Snead, when the row commenced. A general fight would have ensued, but for the reasons stated above. The negroes bran dished their clubs and threw showers of bricks ; the whites standing firm and cool. Soon, at the suggestion of Major Crump, the military I squad was put in motion, and the bayonets i dispersed the negroes, injuring several, and we hear running one entirely through. The ofli j cer in command very wisely ordered his troops ■ not to fire. i About seven o’clock another serious disturb j ance occurred in Broad street, occasioned by a : mulatto, who is said to have assaulted a young I gentleman who is, and has been for years, a cripple. Immediately after this the same ne gro strjjck a lady—the wife of an eminent sur geon of this city—felling her to the ground.— There were several crowds of people on the streets talking over the incidents of the riot at the City Hall, and chase was made by several persons for the offending negro, while a couple of gentlemen raised the lady from the side walk and conveyed her into the store of Mr. W.C. Jones. By this time there bad collected in the vicinity of Hunsberger’s corner about two hundred people. Several pistol shots were fired, one of which took effect in the thigh of the fleeing negro. Deputy Sheriff Crump, at great personal risk, succeeded in arresting the ! negro and protecting him from the rage of the j incensed multitude. A number of prominent ■ citizens arrived at this juncture and seconded Major Crump in the preservation of the peace. They afterwards assisted two police men in getting the negro to the guard house. The negro was very much excited and did not seem to realize that he was among his friends. We learn that he is subject to fits of lunacy, and this may account for his strange demeanor. His name is Alfred, and was form erly the slave of Mr. J. E. McDonald, of Sum merhill, S. C., but has recently been in the em ploy of Mr. Wheelock, of this city. His wound is not serious. Just as the negro was started to the guard house as above stated, some other negro threw a billet of wood in a crowd of whites, when a few more volleys were fired without and re sult. We shall not moralize on this affair. There were several well disposed colored people who endeavored to persuade their race to quit the streets. These men also witnessed the suc ' cesßful efforts of the gentlemen referred to in | saving the mulatto, Alfred. Church Matters in Nashville.—The | Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati Com ! mercial, writes under date of the 16th inst., as follows : “ There has been some unpleasant feeling in Christ Church, in this city, for some time, growing out of High and Low Church differ ences. A veiy small proportion of the congre gation are inclined to ritualism, while the pas tor, Rev. Mr. Ellis, has gone the extreme of Cow Churehism. The latter, in view of the i slight opposition manifested, has asked that the | vestry proceed to the election of a pastor. The ; election takes place on Monday, and there is no i doubt that Mi. Ellis will be re-elected, as he is ■ very popular with nine-tenths of the congrega -1 tion.” Richmond Medical Journal.—We en dorse the following from the Richmond Zh's patch relative to the Medical Journal : “ This valuable monthly publication, for April, has for some days been lying on our ta ble. Dr. Gaillard, its distinguished editor, has resumed its editorial department, after a long attack of sickness, ■which rendered him unable to attend to his editorial labors or the duties of his profession. The present number is very interesting for the variety and value of its con tents. No journal in Its department can dis play more vigilance with regard to the im provements in medicine and surgery, and all the appliances and mechanical inventions for the benefit of the sick and suffering. “ It is very gratifying to Southern people, as well as the faculty, that so able a periodical is printed here. It is an invaluable adjunct to Southern practice and to the exertions to form an enlightened and prosperous school here which will become a high authority in genera’ science and develop thoroughly the peculiar types of diseases in the South. “We appeal to the patriotism and pride of Southern physicians to sustain this work ; not merely that it is a Southern work, but because, in addition to this, it is the largest and best medical monthly published in the United States, as is admitted by the press generally, North and South, which has noticed it. Furthermore, its contributors represent the best teachers, prac titioners and writers in this country and in Europe. As any one may see from its contents, the editor’s means of correspondence enable him to furnish all that is best and most reliable in contemporaneous medical literature. Be sides, the Journal publishes more for the pres ent currency than was given before the war for subscriptions in gold.” Butler hates General Thomas, says the New York Herald's Washington letter, because Thomas told him to his face during the war that he was a liar, and repeated the phrase when Butler drew up to strike him. Butler then backed out. Out.—The following has beea received by Mr. J. R. Davis. In view of recent events we deem comment unnecessary; Bureau R. F. & A. L., I Office Ass’t Com., State of Georgia, "> Atlanta, Ga., April 23, 1868. ) [EXTRACT.] Special Order No. 47. 1. The resignation of Mr. Jacob R. Davis, Agent Bureau R. F. and A. L., Augusta, Ga., is, subject to the approval of Major General O. O. Howard, Commissioner, hereby accepted, to date, April 24, 1868. Mr. Davis will turn over to Mr. M. L. Whalen, Agent, who has been ordered to relieve him, all books, papers and records per taining to bis office. By order of Brev. Brig. Gen. C. C. Sibley, Assistant Commissioner. M. Frank Gallagher, 2d Lt. 16th U. S. Infantry, A. A. A. G. Destructive Fire.—About one o’clock on yesterday morning our town was aroused by the alarm of fire near the jail. From what we have been able to- learn, it commenced at the rear corner of the building. Whether it was the result of accident or is the work of an in cendiary seems to be a matter of uncertainty at the present time. Five buildings (store houses) were consumed, as also was the jail.— The loss cannot well be estimated at this time, but it is very heavy. The prisoner in jail, King Henry, in the ; midst of the confusion in efforts to extinguish ! the fire, made his escape, and has not yet been i recaptured. Great efforts were made to pre- ; vent the fire from spreading to other parts of the town. Every one on the ground seemed ' resolute to do their duty. The Federal soldiers ; who are here at present worked like heroes, j and deserve great praise, as also the negroes, i for they turned out, men and women, and with I buckets of water, and labored manfully to extin j guish the flames. No one can doubt but that I these negroes showed a good disposition in this affair. Many of them deserve especial praise, but time and space forbids us to men tion names. Many of them during the elec tion now being heid have shown by their votes and the interest they have taken to promote the voting of the Democratic ticket, that thev were for the good of the country, and true and faithful to its best interests. They had, on this occasion, an opportunity to show their faith fulness to the whites, which they nobly did. I Let the whites remember them and their ser j vices. I The principle losers by the fire were Ed monds & Stanton, J. T. McCarty’, James A. Rumsey, and the county. [Elberton Gazette, Shots Fired from Bradley’s House at Citizens.—On Thursday night four shots were fired from Bradley’s residence, corner of Broughton and Lincoln streets, at persons passing by on the sidewalk. A crowd collected immediately, and a rumor which reached the United States Barracks brought a file of soldiers to the spot, who left immediately upon iearn i ing the facts. Sergeant Foley called upon I Mayor Anderson and told him of the oecur- I rence, and, fearing the men at Masonic Hall I would hear of it and execute summary ven geance, the Mayor went to the place and investigated the affair. On knocking at the front door, be was let in by a burly negro armed with a cutlass. On going into the back room the Mayor found a party of negroes, and in the centre of them a white man, whom Colonel Fitch, in his scathing portraits of the Radical leaders, at the Johnson square meeting, ealled “ the best of the lot.” The party were drinking whisky and appeared very convivial. The yard was also full of negroes. They denied having fired the shots, and were warned to keep quiet by His Honor, i who then left.— Sav. Rep., 25th. j Conjury.—A negro on the plantation of Geo. : B. Holmes, Esq., bought some calico a few days I ago and got a negro woman to make it into a spread for her bed. When it was made and slept under the first time the owner became sick, and suspicion of conjury fell on the ma ker. It was said that the conjurer blew her breath three times in the middle of the spread. The excitement on the plantation was intense. On Sunday the spread was brought out and solemnly burned in the presence of several thousand free and independent voters. On yes terday the conjured woman walked to town through the rain and mud to give ten dollars to the medicine-man who cast out the evil spirits, and the woman who did the conjuring also came with her friends to be cleansed of the unclean spirit. It will cost her also ten dollars to be absolved. In the meantime the plantation is in a high state of excitement, and no work is done. It is the duty of Congress to pass a reconstruc tion supplemental act forbidding conjuring. [Montgomery Mail. Rev. Wm. Cooper, agent of the Sunday School Board at Greeneville, 8. C., advocated the cause of Sunday Schools and of Sunday School literature. Rev. J. P. Boyce made an address in behalf of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Greeneville, 8. C. On motion of Rev. D. E. Butler, Resolved, That this convention cordially ap- I prove of the design of the Southern Baptist I Theological Seminary, not to attempt any en- ' dowment at present, but to confine its efforts to the annual support of its interests during the financial difficulties of the country, and that we do recommend to the churches and as sociations to give all possible facilities to such ageircies as may be set on foot to procure these annual contributions. Resolved, also, That the Baptists in this State are recommended to contribute sbeh an amount as with other sources of income from this 1 Slate shall support one Professor. Yout First Sweetheart. Yon can never forget her. Sho was so very young and innocent and pretty. She had such away of looking at you over her lyinn-book hi church. She alone, of all the world, did not think you a boy of eigh teen, but wondered at your size ; and your learning; and your faint foreshadowing of a sandy moustache, and believed you every inch a man. Whenat those stupid evening parties, where boys who should have been in the nursery, and girls who should have eaten their suppers of bread and milk, and gone to sleep hours before, waltz and flirted and made themselves ill over oysters and champagne, you were favored by a glance of her eye or a whisper from her lip. you ascemied to the seventh heaven immediate ly. When once upon a certain memorable e\ e she polkaed with the druggist’s clerk and never looked at you, how miserable you were. It is funny to think of now, but it was not funny then, for you were awfully in earnest. J Once, at a pic-nic, she wore a white dress, and bad roses twined in her black hair, and she looked so like a bride that you fairly trembled ; sometimes you thought in just such a costume, with just such blos soms in her hair, she might stand beside the altar, and you, most blest of mortals, might place a golden ring upon her finger, and when you were left alone with her for a few moments some of your thoughts would form themselves into words, and though she blushed and ran away, and would not let you kiss her, she did not seem angry. And when you were parted, somehow, for a little while, and when you met again she was walking with a gentle man, a large, well whiskered man, of twen ty-eight or thirty, and had neither word nor smile for you, and some well-meaning gossip informed you shortly after that she was engaged to the tall gentleman with black whiskers, and that “ it was a splendid match.” It was terrible news to you then, and sent you off to some great city, far from your native place, where, after a good deal of youthful grief, and many resolutions to die and haunt her, you recovered your equanimity, and began to make money, and to call love stuff and nonsense. You have a rich wife of your own, now, and grown-up children—aye even grand children about your hearth ; your hair is gray, and you lock your heart up in the tire-proof safe of your counting house when you go home at night. And you thought that you had forgotten the little episode of your nineteenth year, until the other day, when you read of her death in the papers. You know she was a stout lady, who wore glasses, and had daughters older than she was in that olden time; but your heart went back and you saw her smiling and blushing, with her golden hair about her face and yourself a boy again, dreaming of wedding robes and rings, and you laid your gray old head upon your office desk aud wept for the memory of your first sweet heart. [From the Daily Advertiser. The So-called Election. This thing, the Saturnalia of the nineteenth century upon this continent, has finally come to .a close for this occasion. For four days a stream of votes has poured in, more than one half of which would not be recognized in any State of that Northern section which forces them upon us. The eiectiou has been quiet, and the quiet has been secured, not so much by the presence of bayonets (a fact, in itself, a terrible sarcasm on the freedmon of the citizen and the stability of Republican institutions,) as by the constant exertions of the Conserva tives, thronged the polls and whose eon ; tinned Sflbrts were directed not more to theac ! quisition of votes than to united action with the i military and police to preserve order and quiet. ' And here we must pause to bestow the bigh | est praise upon the gallant and unterrified col • ored Democracy and their leaders, who, worthy of the great and time-honored party in which they have enrolled themselves, have proved that they are worthy of the highest and best enco nium. These men before the election -were ’ made the objects of the most bitter and bloody ; denunciations ; they were assured that their I lives and property would surely- be sacrificed I should they dare to vote the .Conservative ticket, as their convictions and consciences told them they should vote. They were proscribed and menaced. It required no little degree of courage to face the storm, which the Radical policy of Intimidation held before them ; but, thank God, these brave colored men, true to conscience and real manhood, stared the I threatened danger boldly in the eyes, did their ' duty nobly’ and manfully, and proved tbein | selves worthy of any trust which may hereafter jbe reposed in them. Ali honor to John Chip, to Jackson Brand, tQ Osborn Wray, to Francis McNeill, to Thos. Scott, to Fred. Law, to Wm. Vollard, and to scores of others, whom we can not enumerate, but all of whom we equally honor. But if one tiling more than another redounds to their credit, it rests in the fact that, after they found they were in the, majority at the polls, they refused to remember the base and cowardly means of intimidation used against them, and stiil “ pursued the even tenor oi their way,” doing their duty calmly and fear lessly, preserving the peace and evincing no animosity at the miserable means used by the ■ Radicals against their freedom of action. On I the last three days of the election tbeConserva- I live colored men were in the majority at the polls, and to their credit be it said, they controll ed their anger under their great provocations, behaved orderly and followed the law. Me infinitely admire the brave and gallant colored men who have stood by their early associations—an admiration almost as intense towards them as is our contempt for the miser able wretch who, an educated and professional man, and born at the South, has from the most sordid motives, cast reproach upon an honor able name aud grief upon honorable men, un fortunate enough to be his relatives, by shame lessly appearing at the polls to advocate the K.uiical cause. We mention no name ; let the cap be worn by him whose conscience tells nun it fits; aud let him remember that there are some disgraces worse than crimes. The colored men of the city, educated by association and training, voted the Conservative ticket; the brutal and ignorant negroes of the country voted the Radical ticket, almost to a man; and this in itself is a test of the com parative merits of the two parties and the re spective causes they advocate. Great Doctors in Consultation.—When Ur. Bethune and his wife were in Europe, Mrs. Bethune had been transported bv water from Liverpool to London in order to consult Sir Astley Cooper and Sir James Clarke. At this place her husband joined her, to make the dis covery that even the most learned doctors may be found napping. The accommodations not being extensive, when the two physicians re tired for consultation, Mr. Bethune was in a. position where he could overhear their re marks. They had a pleasant interview, one re lating how he, on a certain occasion, came very near lighting a duel. The difficulties and dan ger of the position occupied some time to de scribe, and they were about to separate, when one recalled the patient. “ But what shall we Bethune’s wile?” “O, give her the ‘ , ’ <l P' n ;, was the ready reply. It is superfluous to add that this most expensive medical attend* ance quickly terminated. ‘ ’ A Yankee having told an Englishman that he shot on one particular occasion 999 <sninc I his interlocutor asked him why he didn’t make it a thousand at once. “ No,” said he “its not likely that I m going to tell a lie for one snipe.” Whereupon, the Englishman, deter mmded not. to be outdone, began to tell a story of a man having swam from Liverpool to Bos ton. “ Did you see him yourself ?” asked the Yankee suddenly, “did you see him yourself “ Why, yes, of course I did. I was across and our vessel passed him a mile out o"f Boston harbor.” “ Well, I’m glad ye saw him stranger, ’coz yer a witness that I did it. That was me I” | [From the Missouri Republican. A Eival for American Cotton —Suicidal Policy of Radicalism. We have from time to time noticed the un tiring efforts of the English cotton spinners, continued now for a series of years, to extend the area of the cotton cultivation in countries outside of the United States. These parties began their work before our civil war, and were stimulated to renewed exertions by the experience of that war. They are still working with their accustomed energy and perseverance, aided by the capitalists and Government of England. The “Manchester Cotton Supply Association ” is now one of England's great institutions. To aid the efforts of this compa ny, the diplomatic and consular agents of Great Britain, in every country where cotton can be raised, leave no stone unturned to foster aud promote the production of cotton. They are among the agents through whom, by means of capital and information as to the raising of this crop, the Manchester company operates. That company has, besides its special agents skilled, well-informed and able men, who are them selves thoroughly instructed in all that pertains to the cultivation of this staple and know how to instruct others. By virtue of such agencies and large amounts of capital applied to the ob ject, the success of this company has been most signal. Their largest field and that in which they have wrought most dilligentiy is of course In dia. 1* ormerly, India cotton was very inferior to American, and it was supposed never could be improved so as to be equal to it. But, nev ertheless, a vast improvement has been effect ed. This result has been brought about by the introduction of seed from New Orleans. The cotton plant from seed of this variety has been naturalized in India, where the yield, though in some particulars liable to the objections heretofore made against India cotton, is twenty per cent, in excess of the best of the other va rieties grown in that country, and forty per cent, over the ordinary kinds. What is more important is the fact that the product turns out pound .or pound a larger quantity of yarn than can be spun from American cotton. In the Bombay Presidency, the quantity of land suitable for cotton amounts to over sixteen millions of acres. There were in cultivation, in 1866-’67, nearly two millions of these acres, more than a third of which was planted with the American seed. The present year the quantity of this kind of seed used will begreat lj’ increased. In this country, the crop of 1867 will be but a trifle in excess of that of 1866. It is difficult to speak of the crop prospects for 1868, but they probably promise no better than those of the last year. The cotton cultivation here may be considered as little better than stationary, if it is not receding. Among the circumstances which in this connection have more or less sig nificance must be noticed the fact that a recent meeting of the Manchester Cotton Supply Asso ciation, communications were read from sev eral Southern planters, offering to transfer their capital, skill and experience to the cotton fields of India. The reasons that have moved these planters to take such a step—which amounts to expatriation from their native land—are the un settled condition of the American cotton States, and the probabilities that hereafter the domi nating power and prevailing influences in that section of the United States will be exceedingly adverse to regular and profitable industry, if they do not prove to be incompatible with the residence there of any portion of the white race, who rise above the present level of the blacks The New York Bulletin, which has collated some of the facts stated above, correctly re marks that their importance cannot be exag gerated. Like every impartial paper, looking at the subject from a commercial and financial point of view, and in reference to the largest material interests and general prosperity of our country, that journal perceives that the policy and measures of the English Government are in broad contrast with those of the Radical rule, which is now laying its heavy hand on the Southern States. The agitation of negro suf frage was a wanton piece of unmitigated folly. The_ tyranny it necessitates is a natural accom paniment of it. Both together trample on that section, and have depressed, and will continue to depress its industrj’, retard its recovery and growth, and keep it in a languishing condition. Had negro suffrage never been broached—had nothing more been done than to see the Civil 1 Rights act enforced for the protection of the | negro—the South, iong since restored to the j Union, would be peaceable and prosperous.— | Both white men and negroes would be con- i tentedly at work raising cotton and sugar; and j the cron of 1868 would have made near ap- I proaehes to that of 1860. But Radical insanity 1 and hatred—the folly of its fanaticism and vis- j ionary nonsense—together with a blind and savage thirst for revenge, have inspired a sui cidal policy, which is now having its perfect work in more than half ruining the finest por tions of the United States. Another View of the Cotton Supply.— | The following calculations and estimates have j been submitted to us by a gentleman who : closely observes the phases of the cotton sup- • ply and consumption, and whose good judg ment gives weight to his opinions : “ While we are daily perusing statements is sued to prove the actual prospective deficiency ! in cotton, it may be well to digest one showing ! the possibility that a few bales may be left on j hand when our new crop comes to market, I to-wit: Bales. April 18, stock in Liverpool 407,000 April 18, at sea (100,000 American).... 348,000 | Additional American at sea of week ending April 10 48,000 Additional export of Am’n to Great Britain, alter New York telegraphic reports of April 10th, giving Great Britain 50,000 more than of last years’ crop 258,000 1,001,000 Average vzeekly receipts in Great Britain last year from other than United States was 43,000 for 19 weeks 817,000 Less in above estimates at sea. .248,000—569,000 1,630,000 For consumption and export at Liver pool, say 19 weeks, to Scptem ber 70,000—1,330,000 Stock September Ist, 1868 300,000 In addition it is said the spinners of Great Britain hold an excess 0f.... 200 000 While the Continent has also taken largely from Liverpool, so as to di minish their demands on that port, and in addition have taken from the United States, more than last year.. 140,000 The weekly estimate of receipts from other i ports than the United States is taken from the j average oi the entire year of 1867, although the i tour months comprised should be the heaviest of the twelve. Supposing the U.S. crop to be 300,000 more than last year, I have distribu- I ted to Continent thereof 140,0 Do. Great Britain 50,000 Leaving for distribution....’ 110,000 [Colubus Enquirer. A Curious Calculation.—T’-e New York Courier of to-day says : Both parties in the West are «in favor of paying off the national bonds in greenbacks ; both parties in the Atlantic States favor pay ment in gold. Let us see what the effect would be either way. Suppose payment now, or n nno ee . n ? ack8 ’ to cost the country 52,- 000,000,000—that is a clear loss of the whole.— lhen suppose the $2,000,000,000 not paid until maturity, say forty-four years from this date, the interest on $2,000,000,000 is $120,000,000 a year at 6 per cent, at compound interest; there fore, the interest alone would amount to thirty thousand millions in gold. Here’s a splendid chance for the political economists to figure, and tell us which costs most, $2,000 000 000 lost to day, or $38,000,000,000 lost in forty-four years ? J The late Archbishop of Dublin making one day a very small joke, all the company laughed heartily, except a certain popular author who was present. His grace, somewhat nettled at the very serious countenance preserved by the humorist, remarked, “ I don’t think you see what I mean.” “Oh, yes, I do.” w’as the re ply, “ but the living my brother is seekim' is not in your diocese.” ” I [ From the N. O Picayune, The Radical Uses for the Negro- A disposition has been shown by the emancipated blacks in various places to emigrate to Liberia. The Colonization So ciety is in the receipt of a good many ap plications for aid, and has issued a circular asking contributions to help it in this exo dus. The Anti-Slavery Standard gets very much excited on this topic, pours a column of abuse into the Colonization Society, and calls it another scheme in the interest of the old slaveholders to strengthen the par ty of caste in this country. The negro is advised to retuse to quit this, his native country, to go into what is represented to be a dismal exile in Africa. This sounds very considerate and philan thropic; but it is, in its essential traits, selfish and cruel. The Standard has a prob lem to work out, and it has use for the black man as the subject of experiment, and cannot do without him as an ally. There is a conflict coming on, nay delibe rately brought on by the Standard and its party, between a large superior intellectual race, with an inferior, ignorant and un taught one, and it has been made to as sume the aspect of a struggle for mastery. It would never have assumed any such shape if these pestilent theorists had not put into it the element of political suprema cy for the inferior race as a preliminary to their exaction of a social amalgamation, against which inveterate habits and un eradicated instincts rebel. Os the ulti mate result of the conflict we shall not attempt to sneak. The matter for the present is, that under the Radical policy nine-tenths of the numbers and intelli gence of the superior population are placed in a subjection, which is felt by them to be degrading, below the ignorant, delud ed mass, and are penetrated with a deep conviction, that in this they have been in sulted and outraged, as well as deeply wronged. Thejwj are the elements of chronic discord which are not to be stilled by dis quisitions on the fanciful idea of a republic, which is to be established when human nature has so thrown off all its imperfec tions that it will need no government at all. They are not to be removed by the direct hand of military power. Under that dis contents will only be more aggravated, and the fervor of martyrdom be added to the stubbornness of opinion, and the sense of unmerited wrong. Good men will anxiously desire to combat these results in the com mon interest of society for peace, but men to be wise, must work for practical results with the means about them. It is a false policy, and will have no practical good issue, to deal with six millions of white men who feel that they suffer and believe they are foully wronged, as though their Complaints were feigned and their com plainings a new offense. Nor while these sentiments must rankle, is there any ra tional ground for hoping that the other party invested with unwonted and unbound ed power by alien influences, will not fol low the universal rule, and abuse the supre macy which comes to them in the nature of the victory of a race, and, to each one of them, as a personal aggran dizement, which would inflame the self esteem of much better trained minds. These are the conditions which all re flecting minds see in the new relations of society, which force is going on recklessly to impose on the Southern people. They are not matters of choice with either race.* They come to us from without, but they are just as inevitable, in the constitution of human nature, as the disruptions, devasta tions and noisome gasses that follow au earthquake. Quiet and fertility may come in some day, when the volcanic forces shall have exhausted themselves ; but the people I who live within the range of the belching j mountain are not wise but otherwise in I praying for eruptions, because their poster ; ity may be thankful one day that the fires i have gone out.’ The Standard acknowledges this to be the condition of affairs, w’hen it demands of (he negroes, who begin to see into what a struggle they are being led, to forbear seek ing a change of condition and a quieter home elsewhere. It forgets the zeal w’hich its friends affect for the elevation of the race in a government of their own, and for the Christianization and civilization of Afri ! ca, of which the colony of Liberia is vaunt led so much as the pioneer. It wants men I to stay here, where it can make them suffer, where they fear to suffer, that their suffer ings may be useful to the propagation of some Radical theory of universal equality, to be fulfilled in a future day, wlien their race shall have become thoroughly enlight ened, and the white race thoroughly recon ciled, and a millennium of perfect frater nization succeeds to the passions and con vulsions which faction has so wantonly im planted among a -people who would else have lived together in peace, and worked out the common happiness of the races in the natural order of mutual interest and mutual good will. The Radical interest in the negro is the interest of a serviceable tool. To keep him here is one phase of the manifesration, but it is also clear that a negro who might see his true interest to be in spurning alien influences, and clinging to the fortunes of those with whom he has been reared, who know his weaknesses and his wants, aud can have no possible desire to molest or misuse him, or hinder his advancement in comforts and in station —would get little aid or sympathy from these political negro philists. If he could not give political service for the favor he asks, he might go to Liberia, or anywhere else, ami be fol lowed by abuse. He would get such a reply as the Jacobin, in Canning’s famous burlesque, gave to the “needy knife-grinder” who could not understand his politics: I give thee six pence! I’ll see thee damned first, Wretch, wh>m no sense of wrong can rci se to vengeance I Sordid, unfeeling reprobate, degraded— And spiritless outcast 1 What They Say of Butler at the “ Hub.” —A Washington correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, a Jacobin sheet, thus speaks of Butler’s manner of conducting the impeachment trial: “ Mr. Butler calls for the witnesses, Mr. Butler examines the witnesses, Mr. Butler explains the purpose of testimony, Mr. But ler answers the objections of the counsel on the other side, Mr. Butler supplies the amusinff retorts which enliven the occa sion, Mr. Butler bullies the Chief Justice, Mr. Butler announces that the case is closed. The President’s counsel—whether Mr. Evarts, Mr. Curtis or Mr. Stanbery is speaking, say * we;’ Mr. Butler says ‘ I.’ If Mr. Butler has not finished his oysters when the fifteen minutes’ recess is over, the case waits for him; if he is ready, the trial proceeds, whether half the Senators are in their places or not.” Laying of the Corner Stone of the Second Baptist Church in Macon.—The ceremony took place on Tuesday evening, in the presence of quite a large and respectable audience. It was opened with prayer by the pastor of the congregation, the Rev. Mr. Blitch. The address was delivered by the Rev. David Willis, and the ceremony concluded with nn address by the Rev.-E. W. Warren — the whole ceremony being very impressive. The church will now rapidly go forward to completion. f Journal Messenger.