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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1869)
THE WEEKLY 00H8TITUTI0NALIST WEDNESDAY MOBNING, SEPT. S. JBW. Our New York Correspondence. Nkw York, September 4. I read with much interest the objections to my observations on the subject of the 'probable prices of cotton, which were con ■ ''-lined in my letter of two weeks since. I was glad to see them, for only on the full -est discussion of these matters can correct views be reached, and all the points at is sue be brought out. It was a mistake to suppose, however, that I aui “ bearing ” the market. On this subject, as oil all Others. I endeavor to write the truth as I see it. But the proof of the pudding is in eating it. On the day after my letter of “..caution” was written, low middling up land cotton sold in this market at 28>.<c, for December delivery ; iu just eight days there was a decline to 26>jc., with no change in-the price of cotton on the spot. Since the market touched 26 1 2 c. for'De cember delivery of low middling upland-, we have had better accounts from abroad, and an advance of three per cent, in gold, and reports, fully credited, of considerable damage to the crops in Central Georgia by rust; but with all these things in favor, and some improvement in cotton goods, only one-half of the decline has been recov ered. We shall, undoubtedly, now, when stocks at all points are exceedingly mea gre, a sharp flurry, and appearance of spec ulative activity, have “ to start the cot ton,” as the phrase of the street goes. Who ever trusts it will find himself the loser. When the cotton is “ started,” the parties to this flurry will begin to talk of holding off till prices “touch bottom,” which is an other favorite expression rn the street. The advance in gold this week is of the most treacherous character. It is en gineered by the Treasury Department for effect upon the Fall elections. But it is attended with extraordinary depression in sterling exchange, upon the negotiation of which the export prices of cotton largely depend. In the market for breadstuffs, the effect of a great advance in Liverpool was almost wholly lost, because exchange was unsaleable. It may be expected, also, that ocean freights will rule very high. A scarcity of vessels is already felt here, and we are as yet sending but little to Europe, except flour, wheat and petroleum. We shall have to feed as well as clothe .Europe the coming year. The sad fate of a mere city politician is that of Francis J. A. Boole. A few years ago I heard of him as a respectable ship builder on a small scale. In an evil hour he was dragged into the dirty pool of city polities. He became, necessarily, Council man, Alderman, City Inspector, and candi date for Mayor—running this course in eight years. He became a leader in Tam many Hall, through sheer force of char acter, for he was without education, and knew nothing of the more elevated phases of public affairs. As in so many other cases, one defeat was ruin. He became insane, and after five years passed in va rious asylums, he has just died at the age of 48 years. Success in our city politics bring no honor, for, to succeed a man, must smother all kouorable impulses. A few gain great wealth; and yet the pro portion who get rich at the gambling table is greater than those who acquire an honorable competency from city politics. We have had a sharp frost in many parts about this city, but .no important damage is reported. We have now been for several weeks without rain, and the drought pre vented the frost being general. An interesting and remarkable work, which will shortly be displayed to the public of New York, is a colo-sal statue of Commodore Vanderbilt, which surmounts the main front ot the freight depot of the Hudson River Railroad, and which is placed in the centre of a bos relief of pro portionate dimensions, which Is contrived to illustrate the career and achievements of the Commodore, and also some of the inventions of the nineteenth century. The idea was conceived about two years ago by Capt. Albert Degroot, and the drawings being executed and laid before a committee of the leading citizens, $500,000 was sub scribed for the purpose. The work covers an area of 3,125 square feet, measures 150 feet in a straight line, and is 31 feet in height. The has relief is 10 feet in height at the ends, jvud surmounted by an elegant cornice which slopes grad ually upward for about one-third of the distance each side, then turns up, runs horizontally and final ly forms an arch in the centre over the statue. On the right hand is represented the marine history of Vanderbilt, and on the left, his railroad life. The first repre sentation on the right is a figure of Nep tune; in the background are the Palisades of the Hudson, a light house, and then upon waves of bronze, the “ Dred,” the Uttle two.mastcd “ pennyangcr ” in which, fifty years ago, Vanderbilt, then a young man, carried passengers from New York to Staten Island at twenty-five cents apiece. Next is represented the famous steamer North Star in which the Commodore made his voyage round the world, and last of all is depicted the steamer Vanderbilt. In the middle-foreground is a dock, on which are bananas, pine apples and other tropical fruits, and a cotton bale on which is seated a large watch-dog. ' On the left, to match the figure of Nep tune on the right, is the Goddess of Liber ty; in the back-ground a landscape is rep resented, and in the rear an engine, draw ing a train of six cars. Next the statue is a depot, emerging from which is the loco motive “C. Vanderbilt,” drawing a train of cars. The statue, which is twelve feet hDh, is nearly solid, weighs four tons, and is the largest in America. It represents the Commodore, with head uncovered, and wearing a heavy fur trimmed overcoat, his left foot slightly advanced, his right hand inserted beneath bis vest, and the left some what extended. The attitude is dignified and easy, and as a likeness may be pro- nounced excellent. The principal artist is Ernest Plassman, bv whom, after ten months of labor, the models were all completed, and last Sep tember the task of casting the work in sauare sections of manageable size was be gun by the Fischer Brothers, and a strong scaffold having been erected and enclosed, the different parts of the work were boxed up transported to the depot, and hoisted to the roof, where they were erected against a brick wall three feet thick and firmly fastened with iron anchors. During the progress of the work, the strictest surveil lance has been exercised, in order to ex clude the visits of any one prompted by curiosity, watchmen being employed to see that no unauthorised person obtained a view, and to such a degree was secrecy ob served, that the public in general knew nothing of the great work *hlch now stands complete, save a few finishing touches, and which will soon be display ed to the public amid the ceremonies of the greatest railway celebration ever held in America. „ , , , I The fools are not all dead—in Williams-1 burgat least—if we may judge from the fact that so large a multitude ol men, women and children collected for the purpose of seeing a ghost, which they claimed to be visible at the front door of u church, that efforts on the part of the police were nc j cessary to disDersc them. The precise j origin of the ghost story la not known. i bat wonder and cariosity was stimulated | by the story of a woman who hung herself years ago on the site where the church now stands, and many other stories, equally ab surd, were told, and which gathered as they grew, until women clung to each other in fear, while their male protectors while occupied iu comforting them were paK- with fear themselves. So greativ hail I the crowd increased by nine o'clock, that the police found great difficulty in dis- I persing them, while hundreds remained iu ' the neighborhood till after midnight The I police are of opinion that the real cause of j the excitement was the shadow produced I on church door by a street lamp, which ! reflected on a small and curiously shaped tree standing near by Among the crowd 1 i merchants, lawyers and doctors of' standing in the community. „ A. 1 , ® omerville Gallery there are on exhibition several of the original paintings of Gustave Dore—“ Jeptha's Daughter ”is a magnificent oil painting, representing the Jewish maiden sitting on a rock, surround ed by her companions, on the morning of the day upon which she was to be made a sacrifice to her father's vow. Another— “ Dante and Virgil in the Frozen Infernal Regions, evinces great power. The great poets ate standing together while they con tera plate the agony of the damned' who, though sealed in ice, yet possess sufficient freedom to exhibit their misery by the most frightful contortions. In addition to these larger specimens, are smaller ones winch show, however, to an equal degree, the creative power and execution of the great artist. These are “ Jonas Announc es the Fall of Ninevah,” and “ Dante and Virgil in the Malebozze Circle.” September having come, the season for amnsements for the Winter may be said to have arrived also. Os these, the Italian Opera—the highest style— may be pronounced almost dead; so nearly extinguished that for the present we hear of nothing to be done in that line. English Opera, however, will receive anew impetus, and tie brought more prominently than ever before the public, in consequence of the organization of a troupe under the direction of Parepa Rosa, whose perform ances will commence on the 11th inst., at the Theatre Francais, with Balfe’s romantic opera of the “ Puritan’s Daughter,” which will on that occasion be given for the first time in America. Several others, also quite unknown as yet to the New York public, will be subsequently presented, among them “ The Marriage of Figaro,” “ The Black Diamond,” and “Obefon,” and in addition, many of the standard and fa miliar operas. At Steinway Hall, about the 20th, Max Strakosch will inaugurate a series of con certs, his principal atwaction being Car lotta Patti. In a few weeks, at Booth’s, Miss Bateman will open, and about the same time Sardu’s play of “ Patrie” will be revived at the Grand Opera House. The part -of Dolores will be taken by Lucile Western, who will in that character have ample room for an exhibition of her powers in the passionate line of acting, which is that in which she especially excels. At the Olympic, “ Iliecory Diccory Dock" has been withdrawn, and in its withdrawal pantomine may be said, for the time, to have come to an end in the city. Jennie Landsman, the promising young contralto singer, contemplates returning to New York after quite a successful trip to Europe, although it is said that her object in again visiting this country is more to see her relatives than to appear iu public. Opera bouffe is dead. WilDwjghby. Sketch of the Late Gen. John A. Rawlins. Gen. John A. Rawlins was born at Gil ford, Jo Daviess county, Illinois, February 18,1831, where he resided till 1801. Until 1853 his occupation was farming and burn ing charcoal. In November of that year he commenced the study of law (having previously devoted about three years to preparatory studies) in the office of L. P. Stephens, Esq., in Galena, Illinois. In Oc tober, 1854, he was admitted SO the bar, and commenced practice with his law in structor, winch partnership continued un til August, 1855, when it was dissolved, Mr. Rawlins retaining the business. In February, 1858, he took David Sheean into co-partnership, which arrangement contin ued until Mr. R. entered the service. In 18G0 he was made an elector on the Doug lass ticket from the First Congressional District, and canvassed his district vigor ously, holding a number of discussions with the opposing Republican elector, Judge Allen C. Fuller. In these discus sions, it is stated, he displayed much ability. Gen. Rawlips’ relations with Gen. Grant were always of the most friendly and inti mate character. He was commissioned major and assistant adjutant general, to rafik from the date of the surrender of Fort Donelson; was assigned in orders as assist ant adjutant general and chief ol stuff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, November 1,18G2 ; was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from August 11, 1863 ;-breveted major general of volunteers, to rank from February 24,1865. March 3, 1865, he was appointed chief of staff to the lieutenant general commanding, with the rank of brigadier general in the United States army; and subsequently breveted major general United States army, to rank from March 18,1865. In 1866 Gen. Grant was made lientenint general by Congress, and Gen. Rawlins was designated as his chief of staff. General Grant’s partiality for General Rawlins- was very great. In a letter to General Thomas, July 2,1863, recommend ing promotions, he- especially designates him, saying that “ no officer has a more honorable reputation than he,” and adding that “he would make a good corps com mander.-” In a letter of April 4, 1864, to Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, General Grant earnestly asks for the confirmation of Brigadier General Rawlins, saying that he is nearer indispensable to him than any other officer. In a letter of February 23 1865, to Mr. Washburne, General Grant says he would be delighted should Congress pass an act giving the Commander of the Army a chief of staff, with the rank of Brigadier General in the regular army, and mentions Rawlins as the person for whom the posi tion is designed. Shortly after the resignation of General Rawlins General Grant nominated him to the Senate as Secretary of War, to which he was at once confirmed,and immediately entered upon the discharge of the duties of that position. It is said he was thoroughly acquainted with the reconstruction laws, and that he was earnestly in favor of the eonciliary policy reflected in General Grant’s letters and official communications just at the close of the war. MurdAr in Chesterfield, S. C.— The Dem/srat says: “ A little negro boy about, 1 ten or twelve years of age, was brought I i icre under arrest from the neighborhood of I Cash's Depot for having killed a little girl, 'his cousin, only six years old. He de liberately stripped himself to kill her and - avoid getting tlie tell-tule blood on his clothing, and then put the body iu a |*ond I of water to conceal it." iFrom the ClcginnU Koqo rcr. The PrwWenDi interesting tntt.kview WITH THE HON. JESSE R. OR \VT—fhs OPINION ON NIG GERS, NEWSPAPERS, PRINCE ARTHUR, RAD ICAL CARPET-31 AGGERS, DENT, FENDLE : TON, NATIONAL BONDS AND ULYSSES— WORDS OF WISDOM FROM THE VENERABLE father of his son. , There being a great diversity of opinion i in regard to the political and other senti ments of the father of the President, we yesterday dispatched a reporter to the I home of the aged author of the “ the great est living hero,” with instructions to inter view the old gentleman, and report the re sult. Obedient to his instructions, our re i Pprter crossed'the suspension bridge, at 3 o clock yesterday afternoon, and after a walk of a few squares, found himself stand ing in front of a large brick building on the corner of Scott and Fifth streets, Cov ington, which, upon inquiry, he learned was the post office, and the official home of the father of the President. a president’s live father. ■ Entering the room, our reporter stopped at a news stand on tine left of the entrance, •near the door, purchased a paper and open ed a communication with the bov in charge; Reporter—Geu. Grant’s father is post master here, isn’t he ? Boy—Yes, sir. Reporter—Wonder if I could see him. B°y—Oil, yes, sir, a great many people come here to see him from all parts of the country, and he always set-ins glad to see and talk with them. ’Tisn’t often people have a chance to see a live father of a Pre sident, sir, is it? Our reporter certainly agreed with the youthful render of literature, that it wasn’t very often vouchsafed to humble American citizens to see and converse with a live father of a President, or for that matter, a dead father. tiie president’s fathf.r’s office. Inquiring if the old gentleman was in, our reporter was informed by the boy that Mr. Grant was in the back room. Pro ceeding to the back room pointed out by the boy, the reporter found the door open and the room empty. Ou the table, how ever, was a much worn silk hat and a spot ed silk handkerchief, which indicated the proximity of the owner. While awaiting the arrival of the owner, our reporter took a survey of the apartment, a plain room, furnished with one stand, two desks and several cane-bottom chairs and a soiled carpet. Our reporter had but a few min utes to wait. A nasal blast fro nit lie direc tion of the back door announced that the proboscis of the father of the President was being blown. The next minute the door opened, and an old man of perhaps six feet stature and two hundred pounds weight, with broad and slightly stooped shoulders, grey hair and whiskers, dim, spectacled eyes, and a gait that indicated feebleness, walked in, and our reporter stood hat in hand iu the presence of the great fattier of the greatest living hero. words of wisdom. Introducing himself, our reporter was shown to a chair and invited to sit down, which he lost no time in doing, being eager to bear the words of wisdom that he knew would soon drop from the venerable lips of his host. (We will let him repeat the con versation in his own words.) Taking a scat beside me, the old gentleman remark ed, in reply to a remark of mine: “ Yes, | am the father of the President, but I am very old.” Reporter—How old are yon, Mr. Grant? President’s Father— Seventy-six years this Fall. Reporter—You seem to bear your age well, sir. President’s Father—Yes, I have until lately, but I feel that I am growing old.— This sudden change in the weather has made me very stiff. A pause of several seconds ensued, when the silence was broken by the old man, who said : “ You say you’re h correspond ent ?” Reporter—Yes, sir. I am a newspaper man, and sometimes act as a correspondent for the Eastern press, KENTUCKY A MEAN STATE. President’s Father —Well, I have not many items to give you, except that I live in the meanest rebel State in the Union. Why, I tell you, they ain’t hardly any loyal men in this country. I was out hereon the railroad twenty-three miles the other day, when I saw a young man who was an assessor or something, who told me there were but three loyal men in that neighbor hood, and that long after the war was over he was compelled' to sleep in the woixis every night for fear of being murdered by the rebels, and things ain’t much I letter now. Reporter—The State is now under the control of the Democrats, and will,' of course, remain so unless the adoption of the fifteenth amendment, one of these days, should help the Radicals by the negro vote. HE MIXES THE AMENDMENTS. The old gentleman’s reply to this indica ted a mix of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments in his mind. Said he : “ The adoption of that amendment, if it is adopted, and I ’spose It will be, would reduce Kentucky’s representation in Con gress; but the people of this State will, never, by their own act, adopt nigger suf frage. No nigger can ever vote in Ken tucky. Kentucky would rather go with out representation until doomsday than to permit the nigger to vote.” lIE IS DOWN ON NIGGERS. « And,” added he, after a brief pause, “ I don’t blame ’em much, if they are rebels. I am opposed to having niggers vote. I always was and always will be. I wouldn’t now, and never will, vote for niggers. If I was an able-bodied young man, and was elected to the Legislature, and a nigger was elected to sit alongside*of me, I would say, ‘ Nigger, take both seats.’ ” Reporter—The Republicans say they con sider it. necessary to adopt negro suffrage in the rebel States, in order to control the , “ disloyal” element. ms OPINION OF FANATICS AND CARPET BAGGERS. President’s Father—Well, it was during the wat a Jot of Radical Abolitionists and fanatics got themselves into the Republican party, and have ruled it ever since. Them and those carpet-sackers, who went down there to steal, and foisted this thing on the people of the States. The States could have been a great deal better constructed without it, and there will be trouble about it yet, while Virginia and Tennessee have as good as voted against it now. THE SON OF THE qUEEN AND THE FATHER OF THE PRESIDENT. Reporter—l heard a Canadian gentleman remark a few days since, that it was quite probable that Prince Arthur, who Is now in Canada, would visit Covington, when tljerc would be a memorable meeting of the son of a (Jneen and the father of a Presi dent. . Atffhls tins old gentleman’s countenance beamed and the hard line* of his face re laxed into a broad smile as he refilled ; « Well, if lie com * here, I’ll treat him well. Nobody can say that I have not treated everybody well. Arthur's a nice young man. I guess, and I’d like to sec him. 1 never saw a prince.’' HtS OPINION OF ROSRORAn*. lie Is a pretty smart fellow, birt he Ift no general. Reporter—Just after Koaecntus was nominated for Governor of Ohio by the 7’ therc was considerable talk of lil-feellng between him and your son. President’s Father, with animation— General Grant don't have any enmity to Itosecrans. That’s a mistake or a lie started by his enemies. He never thought hosecrans was worth a cent as a general, and didn’t want him under him. Rose crans was envious and conceited, and hated General Grant. Ho put. every newspaper correspondent he colild find on his stall', and had them paid out of the public money to puff him and run Grant down. General Crnuit dldn t like him because he was so fussy and unreliable. There wasn’t any reliability iu him. He would disobey Grant s orders and defeat his objects when ever he could. grant’s opinion of rosecrans. General Grant told me that he would have to be very scarce of generals before he would take Rosecrans. Why, at the battle of lukn he disobeyed orders and de feated the whole object of the campaign. Rosecrans thought he could whip Price without Grant’s assistance, and gain all the glory and credit; but Instead of that Priee got away, and he was really de feated. The old gentleman here produced a slate and pencil, drew a diagram of the battle field and the position of the armies, and ex plained very clearly how Price was to have been bagged, and how Rosecrans’ disobedi ence permitted his canape. ROSECRANS AS A POLITICIAN. Reporter—What is your opinion of the relative merits of Pendleton and Rose crans ? President’s Father—Oh, Pendleton is at least a hundred and fifty thousand times the best man. He is an independent, hon est, upright, ami straightforward man, who says what lie thinks ; but he’s a rebel and a traitor. He was through the war and always will be. But you know what he is. Rosecrans is a mean, treacherous man, and suits anything in politics. He never was a good general, and lie never will amount to anything anywhere. The fellow has some talent of some kind, but he hasn't anV re liability. He’s both ’a Radical and it De mocrat, and from his last letter lie’s more Radical than I am now. I never was a Radical and I never will be. Reporter—Wliat do you think 6i the re lative ability of the two men ? President’s Father—Oil, Pendleton’s the best man for the Democrats, and he’d make a good Governor, but I couldn’t vote for him. Reporter—The Democrats thought Rose crans would lie a strong man with the soldiers of the Army of the Cumberland. President’s Father—Well, he wouldn't have got the soldiers’ votes. They liked him. at one time, but they found hllll out.— Soldiers don’t like a man who half starves and freezes them, as RosecrnnS did before General Grant took command of that army. He found tire men ragged aud starving, and the roads blocked up with dead mules and horses. He soon cleaned them out, and ' sent up supplies, and made them comfort able, and then they found out the differ ence between a good general and a bad one. Rosecrans wouldn’t have got one more soldier's vote than Pendleton will get; and I don’t see how a good soldier can votfffor a traitor.. ' ' HE IS DOWJTom tub nawuumx. juuroa. As for the abolition of the National banks I believe in that myself. I don’t see why Uucle Sam couldn't as well supply the peo ple with greenbacks and save the interest. Reporter—The President must have a busy time of it, and a great deal of care withall perplexing questions of reconstruc tion, Alabama claims, Cuban annexation, &c. What does the President think of Caban annexation ? HE IS OPPOSED TO ANNEXATION. ' President’s Father—l don’t know what he thiuks, but I’m opposed to it. I’m op* posed to all annexations. I was opposed to the annexation of Texas, Oregon, Alaska, California, and all others. Wo have too much territory now. There are too many differences of opinions and interests iu largb territories. HE BELIEVES IN DIVIDING THE COUNTRY. If I had my way, and It could be peace ably done, I’d divide the country Into two separate nations. I’d draw a line from the eastern border of Texas to Alaska, and put all west of that under a separate govern ment. I’d have treaties of amity and com merce between the two nations like those between the States, and free trade, or pret ty near so. The people would live more peaceably and be more happy. The west ern nation could take Mexico and all south of that, and the eastern take Canada. Can ada is bound to be ours, any way, some day; but we don’t want Cuba or Mexico. Reporter—The General never took much Interest in politics before how, did he ? President’s Father—He never said much, no more than he does now; but he always watched closely, and knew what was go ing on. JUDGE DENT DON’T AMOUNT TO MUCII. Reporter—The newspapers, I see, are ac cusing Boutwcll of using his patronage to secure the next Presidency. President’s Father—Oh, that’s Louis Dent’s story. He don’t amount to mucli; he wants to lie something, and isn’t; he never did have much sense, and never will. THINKS ULYSSES WILL HANG ON TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Reporter—l suppose General Grant will tie sick of the place liefore his time expires, and will not care to have it another term. President’s Father—l don’t know. He won’t want to retire from public life while he is so young. It would go pretty hard with him, I think, to give up the White House. FATIIF.R GRANT THE FOUNDER OF THE RE PUBLICAN PARTY. .• Reporter—The Radicals are dissatisfied with some of his actions, and will oppose his retiominatlon. President’s Father—Yes, the Radicals were al wavs opposed to General Grant when he wouldn’t do just as they told him to.- The Republican party wasn’t originally a Radical party. They crept iu since, and will some day break up the party. I claim to be the founder of the Republican party. I named it fifteen years ago. I was Whig Kxecutive Committee man for the sixth district of Ohio. These were Know-No thing times, and we were to hold a Know- Nothing Convention at Columbus. Know- Nothiugisrn was dying oat, and the thing was to organize anew party to beat the Democrats. I had charge In the slxtii dis trict, and controlled the whole thing. I said we will send delegates to this Know Nothing Convention at Columbus, with In structions to place at the head of tin; ticket a man who had always been opposed to Kiiow-Nothluglsiu, and fill tin: rest of the ticket with Know-Nothings to catch that vote. Then they wuutcd to know what we wepnhihean •party Dthafirthooght of the same name about tin* same time, but I think I was the first to suggest the party and the name. It went through the United tJf® PnWy, as formed then, hadu t many Radicals or Abolitionists in t, either. I hey caffie In with their ultra isms afterward. I moved to Kentucky that Fall, and didn't getto vote for Chase. GREAT RKsjhECT FOR CHASE. Reporter— l snpposo you think Chase has fallen from grace since then, don’t yon ? President’s Father—No, I don’t. Chase is one of the best men In the country, and I would rather see him elected President than any man in the country. Reporter—What do you think of his at tempt to secure the Democratic nomina tion last Summer. BUT CHASE IS LOONY ON THE PRESIDENCY. President’s Father—Well, lie’s insane on the subject of the Presidency, and he thought that was a good change to get into the White House. He has got the Presi dential itch, as Horace Greeley says, and if he had been elected President lie would have got well of the itch and made a good Pres went. lie is a good man, but lie’s in sane bn that one object. He set Ills heart on being President long ago, and he has tliought ou it so long that he lias got crazy. His chance was In 1864, but he missed it; then the people were bound to have Lin coin. But nothing will make me believe that lie is not a good and able man, and the fittest man iu the country for the Presi dency. I’d vote for him to-morrow for that place or any other. THE PRESIDENT OWES HIS SUCCESS TO niS PARENTS. After discussing a variety of topics of no public Interest the conversation turned upon the early life of General Grant, a sub ject on which the old gentleman, with pardonable fatherly love and pride, delights to dwell. “ General Grant,” said he, “ had a better chance to succeed in life than President Lincoln, and owes more of his success to Ids father. Lincoln’s father was a very poor man, and never gave ldn son any edu cation ; all lie got be picked up himself, and all tlie property he had he earned by ills own labor. 1 was never very poor after Ulysses was born; I was poor when young, but before I got married I had earned $1,500, but I lost that two years afterward. I soon picked up again, and have made money ever since. I have always had ilcnty of tlie necessaries and comforts of ife, and never wanted any of the luxuries. I have given all of my children good edu cations, and have made them all rich." This concluded the conversation, and our reporter bid the old gentleman good-bye, well pleased with the gentlemanly manner in which he had been received, aud the good-natured frankness exhibited by the President’s father in answer to ids ques tions. Work for the Month.—To have a cot ton crop nIC 'ly housed, tlie farmer should keep well up with his cotton, ns it opens, during the present month—if lie fall behind row, he will find it very difficult to catch np later in tlie suason. The days are still (long and tlie weather warm—every hlng favorable to cotton picking, except the heavy dew. Tlie cotton picked during tlie first half of the morning should, by all means, be sunned before being packed away in bulk. We do not write this because we suppose any of our readers do not know that damp cotton ought to be sunned, but because there Is always a strong temptation to neglect it. It involves trouble, should be turned over, and must be watched, to ayold the showers of rain, etc., etc., but we tire sure ev&tv 'onservifig’ pummirrH with us that the Increased beauty of “ sam ple,” when ginned, will more than repay the trouble of drying. We cannot, from per sonal experience, decide between the various ginns now before the public. Our readers will find in our advertising columns des criptions of several different kinds from which to make their sections. Where It can be done without detriment to the cotton crop, it is desirable to house corn daring the present or early part of the ensuing month, before the Winter rains have set in; and where house room is abundant, it is well to store it away In the shuck, as corn Is then less troubled by weevils or rats. Fall oats should be sown now, as soon as passible, and we would most earnestly urge upon our readers to Increase this valuable crop. For certainty of succeeding and for the amount produced, oats sown in Septem ber are worth double of those sown in the Spring. Clover and grasses may also be sown now and have time to get established before severe weather sets In. There is this advantage In sowing now, that should there be a failure in securing a stand, one has an opportunity of resowing, either In whole or in part, in the Spring. For clover or grass, pulverize the land thoroughly, manure the surface, sow the seed, and cither le ive the rains to cover them, or run a rol ler over them.— Southern Cultivator. Singular Discovery in the Bay of Bengal.— Among the vessels lost in the memorable cyclone that swept over the Bay of Bengal lu 1807 were the steamer Thunder and the ship Morayshire. Search was professed to be made for these and other missing vessels among the Soonder buns, but no trace of them was discovered, and it was taken for granted that both hod gone down at sea. The other day a party of fishermen, driven for shelter into an out of-the-way creek, some four miles inland, stumbled upon the hull of a ship, which proved to lie the Morayshire,and further in found a large steamer, with masts and fou nds stfll standing, which answered to the description of the Thunder. The steamer had £165,000 on board, which is doubtless yet in her bullion hold. Painful specula tions are, of course, called up as to the fate of her crew and passengers. What that fate was may never be discovered. It is conjectured that they could not liave lived long, even If they survived the cyclone, as the place is malarious in the extreme, and Infested with tigers. What Is, perhaps, the strangest, is that these vessels liave been lying here two years within a few miles of tlie mouth of the Iloogly. Corn. —Corn is advancing rapidly in this market under the very unfavorable advices from the com crop in Tennessee and in tlie Northwest. Our East Tennessee ex changes say the crop has been cut short this season to an alarming extent, and will barely be sufficient for home consumption. If such is the fact, and wc have no reason to doubt It, Georgia planters will save money by pursuing a very economical course with the little they have raised Corn is now stiff at $1 50 per bushel in tills market, and that, too, in the shadow of the new crop, and we undertake to say that on the first of June next, If onr reports arc correct, it will command $2 per bushel In Macon. Look out !—Macon Telegraph. A sufficiency of stock has been subscrib ed to the Balnbrldge, Cuthbcrt and Colum bus Railroad to complete the road to Cutb* l**rt. As soon as the line Is run to Talla hassee, 40 mill's towards Cuthbcrt and 20 miles towards Tallahassee will lie contract ed. I Special ill«| ateli to the New York Wood. The Avondale Horror. . HEARTRENDING SCENE? struggles of the entombed miners to SAVE THEMSELVES. Avondale, Pa., September B.—The hor rors of the scene at the colliery are j U8 t being developed. The mine 'which has proven the death-chamber of two hundred men is opened, and the dead have been brought forth. Men who went down happy Monday morning, eager to resume their long suspended work, came forth stark and C °i • L n / leath to -day. The miners' homes, which in a long row front the opening of the tunnel, are swept of everv male mem bor; and the women sit, with stifled cry ami pallid lips, at the doors, waiting tlie arrival of their dead. The people here ex press their condemnation of the company in most unequivocal terms. By a little ex pense this frightful calamity might have been averted. An Inquest, which will be belli at 10 o clock Saturday morning, will make plain the fticts of the case, and rest the censure whore it is deserved. On Wednesday morning, at 2 o’clock, the relay of moil penetrated as lar as tlie first gangway, and found two men dead this side the door. The bodies were in a dread ful condition, and showed they had been dead since early Monday. The black damp is so strong that the rescuers cannot abide it long— not more than five or six minutes, then they always come up gasping, and sometimes insensible. About eight, o’clock tills morning, the first door oi the gangway was broken iu and sixty bodies were found therc. Their situation was awful; fathers lay stiff in death, with arms about their sons. Some were kneeling, as though in prayer; strong men were hand in 'hand with their fellows. The pick-axes and shov els, which they had used in making an embankment to prevent the entrance of foul air, lay one side. It seemed, then, that they had lied a few steps, when in an ago ny they fell in one another’s arms, suffocat ed by tlie deadly damp. In another cham ber every man was without a shirt. They had stripiied themselves of clothes to use them lu filling up crevices and crannies. One man had pushed a part of Ills garment into an apportnre, when a gust of the gas rushed through and strangled him to death. Wagon loads of coffins line the road, and litters filled with the sheeted dead pass along the line every few minutes. As they arc brought out of the tunnel, an inqnest is held ; tlie dead are exposed for recognition ; and, when one is identified, the Justice calls out ills name aud home; tlie friends take the body and convey it to their house. Tlie solemnity of the place Is not alone that which impresses tin; spectator. Tiie weep ing women and lou lly-crylng children strike the spectator with sadness; but the active-rescuers, aud the provision commit tee, and tlie police and hucksters, and the unemotional miners, make It. painfully ob vious that the present is a time for busi- ness, and not for mourning alone. Already the dozen mules liave caused an insuffera ble stcuch, having swollen and bursted. ’1 lie men who go down to brlug up,the corpses have to pass these carcasses iu or der to get at the dead ; and the stench, to gether with the gas, wldeli has not vet been pumped out, makes It difficult to bring them up. Here follow the details of the rescue of tlie bodies of tlie unfortunate miners from their fiery tomb, bloated and their mouths clotted with blood, presenting one of the saddest spectacles upon which the human CyC -mTOnTnmnfflu Tl,c lol,owing detal,s Wednesday evening; Tlie scene of this catrastrophe, unparal leled in the history of American mining, is on the Lackawanna and Bloomsbnrg Rail coad, twenty-two miles from Scranton, about six from Wlikesbnrrc, and about one and a half below the hamlet of Plymouth. The shaft Is sunk In the side of a steep mountain, Is 237 feet deep, and 40 below the mountain ; has a tunnel opening into which it is dug through the mountain. The main gangways of the mines are n • ariy East and West from the shaft, the first being about 1,200 feet In length and the latter nbout 800. Both East and West the in clines are upwards, and the gangways about ten feet in the clear. Tlie sides of the shaft are lumbered with wooden fix tures. The great wooden building, in which was the breakiug machinery, was immedi ately upon the mouth, and all of tills in flammable material was dry as tinder. If a spark of fire touched any of tills wood anywhere, even outside the mine, a great conflagration was inevitable, and its com munication to the interior of tlie shaft and mine almost certain. To these fticts must lie added that tlie mine had no air-holes distinct from the shaft. The miners, work ing far down in the bowels of the earth, had but that one aperture by which to secure egress to the surface ; that cut off, the wholesale destruction of human life which lias occurred was sure to happen. All is confusion about the shaft, and as eacli car or basket comes up freighted with its lifeless cargo there is always someone to dl cover that lie is “My husband! O, God!’’ “O, God t he is my brother, he Is my father!” &c., and after witnessing witli their own eyes what experienced wisdom failed to make them believe, they fell pros trate to the ground, worn out aud distract ed at the culmination of the mostagoulzing calamity that evgr occurred in this country Up to the last moment the wives, chil dren and relatives hoped against hope that the doomed men might be found alive, but as one blackened corpse after another was brought out, the low sobs of the women broke out Into shrieks and walls of agony as they recognized the remains of their friends. Even men were not unmoved by the piteous spectacle, and many an eye was dimmed with tears as the bodies of com rades, relatives and friends were laid side by side on the grass. The men who were engaged in forcing their way into tiie mine worked with untiring energy, and, if any spur was needed, the agonized entreaties of the women encouraged them to super human exertions. It was sad to see the little children cling ing to their mothers, and wailing In sym pathy with them, although they were un able to understand the full meaning of the fearful disaster. Some shrank back In affright from the almost unrecognizable corpse of a fatfier or a brother, unable to comprehend that this could be the strong, active body so full of life and health a few days ago. The spectacle of these poor creatures walling over the mangled remains of their loved ones would suffice to fill even the most hardened with harrowing memories for a lifetime. The Griffin City Council have subscribed $25,000 to the railroad to Newnan. Bweet potatoes are plentiful in Americas at $1 50 per bushel. Cotton is opening so fast iu Sumter coun ty that planters can’t keep up with It. Let It open. Forty bales of cotton sold In Orlffln, on Haturday, averaging 80 cents. Hold aud keep It up. * ,
