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TEEMS OF THE WEEKLY: 1 Cnpyono TMT $2 00. Club* of Twenty or more. $r BO each ' 1 Copy aix month* $1 00. - THE DAILY: Copy, let* time $100 per month. Official Journal of the United States. Official Jonrnal of the State of Georgia. The Pilot who cah juto will guide the saip or Statesatzlt thxouob etzst stobx. Will Vitoicati the Phihciplxs ahd the foLior or the Befoblioah Pahtt, ahd Sup port its Nomihees. State ahdHatiohal. ATLANTA, GEOBGIA, AUGUST S, 1870. The Ugblatnre. An avalanche of new bills was introduced into the House Monday, seme of .them- bear ing upon questions of importance;, others not so indispenoiblo os to anthorisds their pro longed discussion when they come up for final action - •’sort) In tire Senate, the proposition to reconsider , the voto of Friday, on the “election lion," was laid on the table. was made to prevent an of public opinion, and to of Beconr,traction by threats execration, and ostracism. Ono ranting demagogue even went so far as to ad vise wives to leave their husbands-ih case tho’y would not bo dissuaded from voting for Re construction I Other speakers invoked the rity upon all who dared to 'outrage the sense of a virtuous people” by advocating “negro snflmge” as provided in the Acts of Congress known as the Reconstruc tion acts. And the mushroom “Democracy” generally approved this plan of making a man's politi cal convictions the test of his “respectability” They sought to introduce political andpartr- into social life, into the churches, and into the family circle ; and an honest expression opinion was, if adverse to their way of thflHKng, an occasion for per sonal fends and discord between neighbors and friends. It was a desperate expedient of desperate men. It was the. logic of block-heads and imbeciles who sought political prominence at the expense of-the peace and order of society. ItxrSs'bom oi the same spirit that put Galillio to the rack for Announcing a truth in advance of his times:- Hone but ignoramuses, knaves *, jpr revolutionists or social outlaws will ever re- to it. Men whohad the slightest claim to intoUigsne or character were not in- Bdi^lh They scorned alike the threats and tho friendship of men so utterly destitute or morality. An honest con- be stifled into silence- in this way. Thertrae men of 18C7 who honestly be lieved Hat Reconstruction under the plan pre- proscription, AVo learn that ono of tho Republican Sena tors, wbo is also a minister of the gospel in good standing, was refused permission to _ preach in an adjoining town on Sunday htsL^ggU»yy°“gy e! «> : .» u c ' ,D f id « reJ ' Tho reason given for such refusal, was the that ho had voted tor the substitute offered by Senator Smith of the 7th district for the prof ami do and resolutions of Senator Campbell. This species of proscription is the sarno old political tactics of the Hi Hites which lias kept the State out of the Union, and if it is per sisted in, will be the means or preventing onr admission in December next- AVhcn will tho revolutionary Democracy learn tliat this is a fire country and that men may enjoy and exercise their political opin ions within the limits of law, independent ot tho threats and intimidations of those who would substitute force for argument? Is tiiero any man in this State at tills late •lay, so groat a fool ns riot to understand that the Congress of the United States is pledged to sustain its supporters in the South, or to beliovo that Congress will hesitato to exercise its flower through a loyal, firm aud patriotic President? Wo wonld advise the leaders of the new revolutionary movement to pause and reflect upon tho filet that the i-eoi-ee are for peace and order, and are oppaKd to any and nil action which will lead Congress to keep tho Stato ont of the Union and subject to military authority. The Georgia Senator*—The Ian The assumption of tho revolutionists, that the Constitution provides for on election this full, presupposes the legality of the Legisla ture of 18(18. And this necessitates the fur ther assumption that the Act of Congress of December last was an usurpation, or rather an act of revolntion. If revolutionary, then it follows, that the organization of January, 1870, was illegal and revolutionary; and if that be so, then tho present Legislature is an illegal body, and this notwithstanding the tact that it has been prononneed by the Federal authorities to be “tho first and only legal Leg islature organized in Georgia since the war. The issue, then, is, was the Legislature of 1808 a'legal'body? Congress has decided that it was not If not legal, then its mem bers never entered upon their constitutional term of office, beeanso the Constitution was never of force. Under tho rulings of Con gress, that body never bad any authority to elect United States Senators—no more right, in fact than bad tho Legislature of 18CC. The clpirn, therefore, of Messra Hill and Miller to seats in tbo United States Senate, lsisoil upon the hypothesis that Congress vio lated tho Constitution, in setting aside the Stato Legislalnro of 1808 as illegal! In this respect it does not differ very materially from tho claims nrged by tbo friends of Messra Johnson and Stephens, in 1807. Tho princi ple involved is -about the same in both cases: at least in so tar as it involves the legality the Acts ot Congress setting aside the Legis lative bodies to which each set of Senators owe their election. Wo con readily understand, therefore, why the friends of Messrs. Hill and Miller vvant an election this fall. Such an election wonld bo construed as an endorsement of tho proposi tion that the organization of 18G8 was legal; - consequently that it had authority to elect Senators. And these nro the parties that charge the sin of selfishness upon others! An election gives them a short term in the United States Senate, by practically recognizing the legality of the illegal body that elected them, and denying tho legality of tho Acts of Con gress ! As tho terms for which-Messrs. Johnson and Stephens have not yet expired, and as their eleetiqn is abont upon the same footing as that of Messra Hill and Miller. and os they perhaps come nearer representing tho people of the State than do the last named gentlemen, we suggest that Mr. Hill and Dr. Miller retire and yiold tho place to cx-Gov. Johnson and Alex ander H. Stephens! Tho following is the preamble and resolu tion of Senator Smith, of the 7th District, adopted in tho Senate by a volo of 21 to 14, os a substitute for tho preamble and resolu tions of Mr. Tweedy, of tho House : Mr.-SMITH, of the fith, offered the follow- ng as a substitute for tho whole: Whereas, The constitutional term of the several officers of this Stato, including thnt of this General Assembly, ore necessarily de- Rendont upon tho timo when under the sever al acts of Congress the constitution goes into operation as the paramount law, freed from military influence; and Whereas, The act of Congress of Jnly 15, 1S70, does not fix said time, and the same cannot not bo definitely settled, nntil Con gress shall decide by tlic actual admission of onr Senators aud Representatives; and Whereas, It is unwise farther to complicate affairs by the election of new officers while the period when the State Government ns such under the constitution, bfms Its existence is uncertain. Therefore, Resolved, That the General Assembly so shape- its legislation as that no, election shall 1k» hold; for the various officers provided for by tho constitution, until Congress, by the admission of onr ticuotora and Representa tives, or in some. other way shall definitely determine whether tli6 constitution of this State is held to go into operation as the para ninnut law iu 1868 or in 1870. best thing for the people of the State imitated hot to say so. And they so voted wtfen their sincerity was pnt to the final test* And wlrnt was the resnlt? Did their wives lemre them in accordance with tho mephitic instructions of a reckless c&magogno and his disciples? Nay, verily! Six months after wards we saw persons importuning for posi tions and favors at the hands of the very men whom they had essayed to insult and ostra cise ! And in . general, the very creatures who were loudest in their advocacy of the social and political outlawry of Reconstruc- tionists and Republicans, becatne the most truckling and importunate after the election! And so it will be again. Mark well this prediction ! Tho same weak and contcmpti. bio fcjfecies of warfare is inaugurated to-day to prevent the consnmation of Reconstruction that was inaugurated to prevent its incipiency. Tho some threats are made, and the* same anathemas are hurled at tho men who now dare to stand up and maintain in the State Senate, what they honestly conceived to be right. The object is to intimidate and to overawe by a forced public sentiment. What a miserable subterfuge! What a shallow pre text ! The act of Congress of July 15th, 1870, places tho State Government for the first timo upon the basis of the' Constitution, and therefore leaves the question of an elec tion with tho new Legislature, thus constitu ted. Their decision will bo final. There is no appeal, except to that Congress which has refused to order an election in 1870: And now because a large majority of tbo Senate have decided that an election before tho final ad mission of the State, wonld bo unadvisablc, there arises a howl from those who seek oc casion to prevent the safe and speedy restora tion of the State, in December next But this howl will subside as soon as tho final vote taken. • The Legislature will then proceed to carry ont the provisions of the Con stitution and put tho State iu a position contemplated by tho frame ra(of.I*at instru ment; ami in less than six months, the very political adventurers and disappointed lenders who seek an election through revolutionary means, will deny that they ever seriously meant what they said! It will be to them what tho record of September, 18G8, was, a fountain of bitter memories. And as the peo ple held them responsible for tho evils and the delay which that act of folly entailed, they will hold them to account for this second re bellion against tho constitnted authorities, of the State. tho District Commander, upon the heels of this, was Mr. Blodgett’s Homestead .measure. This also passed, by the Republican majority; and Congress, after making one or two alterations—more verbal than real, so as to admit of no construction adverse to the Federal.Constitrition—accepted the measure os part of the new Constitution. - And, in April ISO'S, the people ratified, the proposed Consti tution by a majority that left the-minds of fossil politicians no longer in donbt of tho fact that tho sceptre had indeed “departed from Judah." Of course the party and the men who had thus responded to the demands of the masses, became obnoxious to a class of politicians who had outlived their era. Efforts were made to hound down the men who could thus strike tho popular heart and champion the cause of the People. This was not unexpected. On tho contrary, everybody looked for It Bat the time is not distant when the party and. the men who thus espoused the cause of the toil, rag millions, wQl receive the thanks and com mand the admiration of all classes, for thus inaugurating a measure of public polity that is destined to make Georgia one of the greatest States of tho Republic by elevating her citizen ship and laying the ' foundation for solid prosperity and contentment among her peo ple. . iptly ratified ' vriU resist attempt to execute the law | constitution except as w* (Democracy); have it The gist of the whole business is, that less the present legal Legislature unless it make valid, tho election of Hill and Miller by declaring that the tive organization of 1868 was valid, the constitutional term of the members com menced in 1868, instead of with tbo admission of the State; then, and in that case, these revolutionary agitators will inaugurate a hellion against the constituted authorities of the State, and thereby violate their parole (some of them at least) as prisoners of the late Confederate Army. The tune once was when the “Democracy' 1 me* argument by argument; but since the time when it invoked the arbitrament of arms to support the dogma of secession, the party erotic Member of the Legislature,” published seems incapable of other argument than tfcat in the Intelligencer a few days ago, saysr of force. Congress, by a large majority, refused posi tively to enact that the Constitution of Geor gia authorized on election in 1870; and as the question as to when the election shall be, can only be decided by Congress or the General -excuses (or a violation of the Constitution only Assembly of the State, any appeal to arms from the decision, when made, wonld be suicidal. It would be rebellion in its xqostag- Piiblic Debt ot the T«y> Belligrrnnt tbau even that of England, lion lfohka is, perhaps, nd j*et five coll ate to sup- lwjt an aggressive war for a longer period tipu twelve months, upon the scale projected t is not ao much debt is the smallest, , of any of the Franco goes to war under the pressure of a heavy national dobt Already her minister of Finance has. mado an effort for a supplemen tal credit of five million francs. This sum; if obtained, makes the national bnrthen larger regulation; for it is a notorious fact that a well The Homestead-Exemption Law. The benefits of a jadicions Homestead law can never be folly appreciated nntil the sys tem has had time to be fully inaugurated. It requires time, first for the poor man to moke the money wherewith to buy a home stead; and, then, when this preliminary step is passed, it requires time to make a judi cious selection, and bestow the necessary im provements to mase that homo attractive. But the benefits of the system are already seen in tho increased hope, industry and fru gality of onr laboring men and artisans. Under tho operations of the Home stead-exemption law, every poor but worthy man feels that, in time, may 'become the master of a small tract of land whereon to erect a home for his family. This stimulates industry and economy. It plants hope in the breast of the toiling masses. Its tendency is to convert a dissatisfied and restless population into cheerful, permanent and reliable citizens. It gives new impetus to business, tones np the industrial and moral sentiment of the community; permanently identifies the masses with the State, elevates the standard of citizenship and strengthens the government by making every citizen a part owner of the soil of the State. The Feudal system of the Middle ages, bound every man, from the king to the peas ant, to the soil. It made every man a soldier, and thus as a military jiower, made tho coun try adopting it, invincible. But it lacked one thing. It lacked humanity. Its tendency was to dwarf the intellect of the laboring classes. It mado tho tenant tho vassal of the feudal lord.*It denied to tho vlUien those Equal, Civil, and Political Rights which is the strength of tho American system. It made the lord in Chief, the sole, ultimate proprietor of the soil, and his subordinates were interested only in so far as the nse of the soil was- vouched sftfe by it But our Homestead system embodies all the strength sought to bo secured by the Feudal system, without entailing its slavish or barba rous features. It seeks to make every man a partner in tbo soil of bis country, and thus to interest him personally in its defense; and it seeks, at the some time, to make each citizen, however humble, tho political cqdal ot the greatest land-owner. It seeks further to stim ulate enterprises to elevate the -moral and in tellectual status of tho masses, by on appeal to Iheir virtuous impulses and to their lauda ble ambition. It is the forerunner of higher type of civilization which is supposed to culminate in-on educated, contented popu lace, and which gives to a democracy the guar antee of stability. Its tendency is to elevate the moral sense of the masses, by affording them the means of securing attractive homes. It is tho greatest auxiliary of a Public School System, and Urns becomes an admirable police Literary—The South This sterling literary periodical will, after October next, become the “organ” of the Methodist Episcopal Church (South.) For the lost four years its career has been one of remarkable brilliancy, and its readers will, many of them, regret that it is now to lose Its distinctive literary character and become a de nominational exponent The last number, for >July, presents a very attractive table of contents. The following sub jects are discussed:.Human Nature; The Bible and Egypt; Derby's and Bryant's Iliad; The Esthetics of Friendship; Birds and Flying Machines; Hamlet; Progress of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century; Ireland in 1870, and Gladstone’s Ecee Homo. The first of these essays is probably by Bledsoe himself, and among other objects of interest, discusses the nature of the influences operating npon the framers of our Constitu tion. Jefferson is mentioned as a disciple oi Rousseau; a believer in-the Social contract theory, and, from the nature of his studies, disorganizer on principle. Among the “Book Notices” is a scathing review of J. Wood Davidson's “Living Wri ters of the South.” Dr. Bledsoe literally grinds this absurd production to powder be neath his sledge-hammer blows. And it would be difficult to select a book more open to crit icism, ridicule and condemnation. After cru cifying several of Mr. Davidson's pet peculiar ities of style, the critic selects one passage as “capping the climax of transcendentalism and obscurity. Here it is : “ I have said,” observes Mr. Davidson, with his usual air of dogmatism, “ I have said that Mr. Hayne has an intense love of nature. This needs qualification. His love is intense ; but it is for the grand and the pictnresqne that ho loves nature. He comes not to her universal vitality with tho affection of a single heart “ He does not seem to clasp her to his bosom with the fervid passionateness of a genuine child of nature—of a suffering Human that sighs ont his sorrows upon her bosom, mid finds a mediatorial love in her intimacy,” etc. If so,” writes the critic, (after recovering from the stunning effect of this tremendous paragraph,) “if so, then Mr. Hayne does per fectly right, for with the eye, and the heart of the Poet be comes to the beatiful forms of Nature, and has no metaphysical nonsense about her ‘universal vitality!’ If Mr. David son comes to *• her universal vitality,* we can not say whether he docs so with ‘the affection of a simple heart* or not; but we are quite sure that ho does so with ‘the affection of a simple head.' If, at the same time, he fences that ‘ he clasps her to his bosom with the fervid passionateness of a gennino child of Nature,* he only mistakes, perhaps, for ‘a genuine gravated form. And wa fear that a.few more' of over forty years' standing,” bnt revolutionary meetings, threatening resUta^ Berate o^he LogMatare wZ to constituted authority for the purpose of in- generally voted with the Radicals on alt timidating Legislators in forming their opiflx questions relating to “reconstruction.” regulated and well conducted system of Pub lic Instruction is, of all others, the and most effective Police System for any eoun- fay. And this Homestead-exemption feature of. our fundamental law, originated with the Re publican party of tho State. It originated, we believe, with the present Chief Magistrate of the State. The record of 1867, and child of Nature,’ what is, in the forcible lan guage of Locke, called *a' perfect natural.” Bnt if he comes as *a suffering Human that sighs out his sorrows on her bosom,’ we know not what to say ; wc are at a loss for language to express our horror and indignation. We can only cry out, away! away! great blubber ing Human! and profane not the holy bosom of Nature with thy touch, or tears. What! oh ‘find a mediatorial love in her intimacy?’ ’oor ‘suffering Hainan r sigh out thy sorrows, but not, we pray, on the beautiful bosom of Nature. Paul Hayne, the poet, has no doubt often stood entranced, like a genuine child of Nature, in devout contemplation of her ‘Awful Beauty.’ We are glad, however, that he has never rushed up to ‘her universal vitality,' and clasped ‘her to his bosom with the fervid pas sionateness* or indecent familiarity of a ‘per fect natural.’” This is severe, biit Mr. Davidson richly merits the excoriation. His “Living Writers of the South” is spoken of, in another place, by the critic, as a “disgraceful book!” The tone of the criticism reminds ono of Poe’s in imitable review of Headly’s “Sacred Moun tains.” Dr. Bledsoe is possessed of a fine critical acumen^ and few writers are better qualified expose, ridicule and render contemptible the literary charlatans whose very names are a re proach to Southern literature. Like Oliver Twist, we are inclined to “ask for more !’ Points. If the Chinese come to New\ork, and the workingmen abuse them, the “Societyfor the prevention of cruelty to animals” will have something to do. Prevost Pu'radol’s suicide is now explained. He was “interviewed" by a couple of New York reporters the day before his dc&th ! Our language is entirely independent analogy. Nearly every educated man, who makes a fool of himself, is called a “rational ist." A contemporary brags abont its “chaste correspondent” Tbe compliment is doubt less merited, as tbo correspondent aforesaid lias rcoently been chased by an indignant party on account of a little personality. Bayard Taylors poem entitled “The Bur den of the Day” Justifies its name. - Bayard ought to have spared ns during the dog-days. Some “gump” talks about falling in love with a “red-haired girl in the sunshine.” We should never go near one, under such circum stances, unless we wanted lb light a cigar. A number of people at Long Branch who don’t take to the water manage to moke their heads '“swim” by drinking water—with a “stick” in it. Tho “War Contributor” is about to start a paper in Cincinnati. The idea of a fat man storting anything bnt perspiratior weather, is supremely ridiculous. Miss Muhlbach is going to rain the Em press oi the French in a six volume novel en titled “Engenie, or Mistress and Empress.' It is to be hoped that sho will not lay toe much mis-stress on the one, or too much emprtsu-anad on the other. An enterprising German preacher lou trans lated the Book of Job into German iambics. What a singular jpb it mast be ! 'The New Yorkers wont fresh air. With all the airs they pnt op, their -demand is simply ridiculous. REV OLUTIOX . itcfct Effort of tbe “Democracy” to nt the Restoration of Georgia- to i Union. re publish below, extracts from ourverba- report of the speeches made by thP“De- at the .City Hall meeting on evening, It is the same old story of us have our own way,” npon an not.Radicalism enough—toere-is-notusurpa- **on enough, nor treachery enough, to force it non a brave people, if they will but do their ity. Let it be understood that we are in fa- an election, and that we intend to W. S. Gordon said: If they [the Legislature] should contem- ,to such on outrage npon the peoi * orgia, the vengeance of o ' tution and an. outraged peo^ a their heads. Yes; let them attempt it, vro will tear .their hearts from them, and- throw them as food to the demons of hell! that it; will bo unheeded or denounced by all the Democratic papers. . - Tho Commercial closes its editorial, of which the above is an. extract, as follows: >wnsay “election in November;” when you it up say “election in November;” when »u come in* say '“election in November;” hen you go out, say “flection in November.” ^ ei family,^invoke'1 lip**bl essingglity Tho Radical party blinded by passion have ~ ion in November. There is inaugurated the political fight The Delfio- SPIR1T OP TI1E'GEORGIA PRESS THE AUGUSTA CONSTITUTIONALIST (DEM.) ■Wants “sound, able and upright men” i lccted for delegates to the Atlanta Democratic Convention. (Onr credulous contemporary most bo ex pecting the miUeniuin.) THE COLUMBUS ENQUIRER (DEM.) Speaking of the communication of a “Demo- He is willing, for the whole State to be “de moralized” and plundered and misruled for •two years longer than the constitutional limi tation of the term of tho plunderers, to avoid a little apprehended disturbance of labor for a few weeks in some sections. Such frivolous serve to Show that the writer is desperately on the hunt for some excuse for an act of weak ness or recreancy, for which he can find no better. He may be, as bo claims, a “ Demo- ions npon a question under discussion be&U the General Assembly, will go tar towards da- barring our representatives to the councils of the nation in December, and thus prolong military government. Every good citizen in! this State wants peace and tranquilly. Men' of substance and character want the State re" stored to the Union, and no more delays consequence of the arrogant, revolutioi and turbulent spirit of the modem “Democ racy.” # The following extracts illustrate the manner in which this “Democracy” is still seeking to prevent the restoration of the State; and we hope, for the credit of the State, that no more such revolutionary harrangues will be made at a time when the real peoplo of Geor gia are supplicating for that peace, order and tranquility which must precede anything like material and commercial prosperity. Dr. Miller, i: said: I bare heard of another story, or rather i -proposition in the shape of a bribe. Tin members of the Legislature whp want thei term of office prolonged, say: If yon will kecjll ns in office for two years longer, we won’t pu| 1 the militia npon yon; bnt if yon don’t kee] ns in office two years longer, we will put th militia npon yon.’ What do I care for thes threats of Bullock or any other man ? Per haps they may put the mititia upon us. Well let them! I stand upon the law, and domain my rights under it I do not propose to vio late tho Constitution of tho State of Georgif or of the United States. I hold them up as i shield for my protection; but if Bullock oi any one else seeks, by threatening to force npon us a militia, to deprive us of does not exist? Perhaps our cotemporary our rights, there are broad hearts an* j means that the Democrats, themselves, desiro strong arms outside of his militia, peiv | 0 form £ sort of hybrid conservative party? baps, that will meet, them eye to eye and loot ., 71 . * r to foot If the militia has to come in order fop r a hybrid is it now. What a secure me my rights, let it come. But I will [“thundering sight” of “political fools,” or po- never yield my rights for fear of militia, Feds 'jitical ninnies, there must be in this coun- eral army or any other organization, human ry>] ^ THE DAWSON JOURNAL (DEM. ) ^ [That is a singular criticism. The writer first insinuates that the ‘‘Democratic Member’ Is dishonest, and then express^? tho firm belief that he is a man of principle !] THE MACON JOURNAL (DEM.) Is jubilant over the effect whioh the war i Europe will have on cotton. [Would it not be well, then, to cultivate cotton instead of revo lntion; to promote the prosperity of our coun try, without engaging in foreign quarrels or stirring up any among ourselves?] THE LAGRANGE REPORTER (DEM.). Says of the Era . V The Atlanta Xew Era.—Attention is directed to the prospectus of this paper. The Era,- bar ring its awful politics, which are of the worst stripe, is a well-conducted, readable paper. It is handsomely printed, and edited with ability. [We cordially return the compliment The Reporter is certainly as much of an extremist the course of Ins remarks^ bn the* one side as it imagines the Era to be •m the other.] TnE ROME COMMERCIAL (DEM. ) Says: There is a great disposition developing among tho people, induced by we know not what, to compromise the principles of the De mocracy and form a sort of hybrid Conserva tive party. And again: There is no help for the State and the coun try outside of the Democratic party, and he who deserts that for any other combination whatever is a political fool or political pol troon. [How can “tho people” “compromise” what crats burning to avenge their wrongs and scions of the integrity of their cause and the vitality of their principles, are moving to the charge! Conservatives to tho rear! Brave men to.the front 11 Democrats, * nhort, sb**rp, decisive battle is before you, and then glory and freedom is yours.' ’ [These kind of appeals were very common in 1860 and in 1861,] THE ROME COURIER, (DEM.) Speaking oi me in the Senate on Sen ator Smith’s Resolutions, says: Henceforth let each man who voted for this odious measure, be held accursed by all honest men, and let no means be neglected by the people to drivo the miserable thieves and scoundrels from the places they, now disgrace. [This is the old Tar aud Feathers argu ment. Beyond this “ Democracy ” assays not to rise.] ' . . Speaking cf the proposed, revolutidfmucy* Convention of the State, the same paper says: Tho people of Floyd arc strangely indifferent to this thing. They should arouse at once and go to work. Time is precious, Onr delegates shqnldbQ appointed, and the pebg&shonld her liearit^ The “ cock-eyed-spoon-ipief-But- lerites ” in the Legislature should bd told, in words, laud but firm, 'that their ambitious schemes are not to be tolerated—that the peo ple have rights, and those n)|ris must be re spected. We call npon the Chairman of onr Executive Committee to conven^a meeting of onr citizens at ankariy day, tof&ppoint dele to the Stale Conventions to be held o; gates ho 17th proximo. [“The people^” are'tired of these revolu tionary harangues, and have wisely conclude to attend to fh«ir business and let the ate Democratic leaders alone.] THE MONROE WITNESS (DEMy) Quotqg Attorney General Akerman’s circular as having been addressed to the Marshals and District Attorneys in Georgia, in view of a pending election in this State. [Of course the editor knew that that circular was ad dressed to the officials in the Northern aifti Western States, where Congressional and other elections are pending.] _— Speaking of the Republican members of Legislature in connection with “prolongation 1 this cartailist saieth: When the present band of office holders are deposed the deliverance would authorize a ju bilee equal to the grand jnbileo of Israel in olden times. THE MACON TELEGRAPH AND MES8ENGER (DEM.) Advises all its readers to sow turnips. [That is sensible advice.] It still speaks of the Legislatnreos “The Agency.” [Agency of the People? Well that’s all right too.] TIIE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL (DEM.) Attempts to brow beat the Democratic mem bers who do not favor revolution. It savs: Mr. O’Byrue, of this city, has for several months. Some anxii by his-friends Mr. Longdon Bowie died suddenly Wednesday morning The regatta Thunderbolt was u very pretty affair A discharged soldier named Gilmore attempted shoot- Meissner, a grocery cleric, the other day, but was arrested, before he accomplished his purpose. LUMPKIN. Quarterly Conference begins, the first Wed nesday in Angnst More rainz.. .Warm weather Cotton prospect unfavorable ISusc ball aoterc. TALBOTTON. Wm. Connell nrarrried Miss Peuria Smith last Sunday under a' license issued four years ago. The happy couple then left in hot haste for Alabama to avoid the avenging Nemesis in the person of the “old man” with a double- barrelled shotgun. HAWKINSVILLE. The exercises of the Academy closed" last Thursday. Prizes were distributed as fol lows: In Primary Department, Master Law- son Way, first prize; Miss Eula Wooten, second prize; Master Wm. Cox, third prize. In Academic Department, Master Baskin Phillips, first prize; Miss Hattie McCall, second prize; Miss Amanda Henry, -third prize. The prizes were presented by CoL C. C. itibbee in a short but appropriate ad dress. COLUMBUS, Crops suffering Rain needed. • ^ ^ AUGUSTA. Joe Berryhill lias been arrested for the tnnrder of Mr. Henry Griffin The question of the location of the new Orphan Asylum' is before the City Council diabolic. And if the speaker of the House Representatives should, by means of ratings which are contrary to all la\v, and an oul npon^ common D«bm members of the House of a free and fail r ression of their opinion npon this question, would just say to tho good people of Grdcue county, don’t whip Abe Colby any more. ‘inlly advises Napoleon to “stear clea he will —of the Journal’s'advice ! THE TALBQTTON STANDARD (DEM.) Very sensibly says: Again, speaking of tho Republican Sena- \ Young men, remain in Georgia. Labor is tors and Representatives wbo had favored the ?'• 3 remunerative and the productive capacity Bingham Amendment, he said, “But, for the encouragement and assistance which wo have received from Congress, wo mnst acknowledge oar indebtedness to those who have represented the. Bullock party at Washington. They went there and worked among the two bodies, .House and Senate, with their own money and there own means, os it was called. But your Governor—gentlemen, I beg your pardon for so styling him. In 1868 ho called himself “Governor of the State of Georgia." In 1869, he dwindled down to “Provisional Governor,” and in 1870 he Is simply “Bul lock.” Hence 1 do not call him “Governor,” for I suppose, the title is not acceptable or agreeable to him. I will say, therefore, that “Bullock” was there also, constantly npon the floor of the Senate and House of Repre sentatives. * He stayed there so long that he actually stank in the nostrils of Senators, and to such a degree that all the champagne baths which he is said to have taken, and all the f the soil as great, under improved systems if agriculture and commercial manures, as ny portion of tho civilized earth. If you rant a fortune, go to work and you can make i iu Georgia. 1 [That’s it! Let politics alone and “goto .rk!”] THE ALBANY NEWS (DEM.) s “red hot” over delusion that an election rill be held in November. It says: The War brought them [Republicans] into lower, and to them we are indebted for all ho extravagances. and robberies which have >een-perpetrated on the State and Govem- uenfr By them tho Friedmans' Bureau was naugnrated at a cost of many million of dol- irs, the honest disposition of which’ cannot ow be accounted for. To them we are in- obted for frauds of every description' perpe- rated in high places and low places, for our Macassar oil that he used, and’ all the omt_|.K esei 8<: hi B l ? and unequal tarifls, matt which he puts upon Ids person in order nil) 11 *! alia unconstitutional the more elegantly to perfume himself, could not render his presence endnrable. He aided us very materially.” CoL Peeples closed Ins speech with the fol lowing words: “In this ernsade against popular right, wc do not want any blood! LVo have had enough of tlAt, God knows. Bnt, let the men who rebel against the law, andoutrago the rights of the people, know that they shall he treated like public criminals, that they shall be looker upon as public criminals, and be punished n.< public criminals at the bur of public justice.’ CoL George N. Lester gave utterance to the following sentiments: If the people of Georgia submit to sucli usurpation [holding the term fixed in the Com stitntion], they are deserving of submission to oppression and tyranny, and usurpation. Why, fellow-citizens, do you suppose that, this Legislature can deprive me of my right to! vote ? Do you suppose that I jrill submit to the usurpation of paying taxes to sustain iuis- representatives who pretend to govern nu; and. ■ make laws for me and mine against the Con stitution of the conntiy aud tho laws of Geor-' gia? “I lost my good right arm in a cause that I believed to be holy and just, and rather than that snch an outrage should bo committed npon the peoplo of Georgia I will lose the other.” “There certainly can be no such measure seriously contemplated. People say that an election will . be prevented simply because Tweedy has introduced such a resolution. Let him introduce his resolution as much as he peases. If such a measure should pass the Legislature-if they do pass it, I will tell you’ that the people will rebel, not against 'the Government, not against Congress, not against the law, they will rebel against usurpation. They will rebel against paying taxes to sup port snch a Government; and when they get $0 a day. they will get it from somebody else besides myself. I will not pay taxes to give them SO a day to usurp' tho righto of the people of Georgia. No, sir they can't cabbage my money in thnt way. I have jnst come from the Cherokee Circuit, and I have talked with several Eepublicans there, and they are all opposed to tfiis usurpa tion. They said, that whilst they were in favor of reconstruction, and wanted to get Georgia back into the Union, and were willing to submit to personal inconvenience and sac rifice, yet, when the Legislature undertakes to tell them that, it will perpetuate iLself by usurpation, against tho law and against the Oonstltntion, they * will no longer go with them, and .they will not submit Jo iL ** • - Tweedy may not be afraid of the people of the city of Augusta. He may lie able to go back there, but ho conlff not oome back to Cobb county after intco- — dnclngimch a reflation ns that. Meii, wo-*v * tnen, and children would spew him out' oFtheir . months and freeze the marrow in his cowardly ~ bones with their denunciation. Idonotknow whether the people of " not. ~ end county cart .the people of Pauld Cobb, Forsyth, and Whitfidddo A bare record of the voting number, omit ting the yeas and nays by name, will afford no serene from responsibility. Snch a subter- lage will be too shallow to deceive. It is an A*asy matter for such members of the Legisla ture as favor obedience to the Constitution, assemble and publish to the peo ple of the State their adhesion to the Constitution. Nor will the plea of absence suffice. The lines can be promptly drawn, and distinctly drawn, by a public meeting, in the proceedings of which may be recorded the name of every Democrat who opposes “pro longation,” and such Republicans as will act w ith them on this question. .The comparison of snch a record with the official vote in the two Houses of the General Assembly, will leave no room for doubt as to who the State Road suckers aud Poor School Fund benefi ciaries are, who would violate the Constitution by prolonging their term of office. When the people conic to the polls this fiilJ, personal di avowal Vill be of no avail. [ This game of intimidutioiLond brow-beat ing won’t go down. It is an insult to the judg ment and independence of the members. The question of an election is purely a legal one, and all attempts to forestall a decision are sim ply futile.] THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN (DEM. ) After admitting that it “supports revolution, says: ' v Yes; but wbat sort of revolution? A revo lution in support of the Constitution and laws, and against a faction that seeks to overthrow both. A revolntion in behalf of free consti tutional government .in Georgia, against an in famous crew who would, override aU law, usurp judicial powers, throttle the people and rob them of their rights. - This journal never advocated, and never will advocate, the violation of any _ revenue laws. To them wo are indebted for military drum- lead courts martial and sweat •'boxes, for rials by military commissions, for offenses lever committed by the parties arrested, for 4iartial law, for murder, for rape, arson and bloodshed, w'hich have been wantonly nitted upon the innocent and harmless. For their illegal arrests and their contempt of the hws and constitution of the State, j [Our contemporary must have the “blues.” |7e advise him to make himself thoroughly {uniliar with the “situatiofi” before he rushes into print his dark imaginings.] THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER, (DEM.) hi an article on “The Capitol Building,” says : ! Wo learn that tho Joint Committee of tho Senate ancT the House on the Capitol Building (frestion, has held several sessions, and have arrived nt the conclusion that ah advance on tie original proposition made by the City tjonncil of Atlanta, is dne, all. circumstances considerejl.tbe owners of that tine property, ^nd that Uio City Council will hold a special uacroint! to-night to consider the Committee's iition. Wo do trust that the Council l act favorably upon the suggestion. The' stitutional right to so do. it increase in tho value; of the property and of the property ail around and iib?ut it, aside from the increased vnftxc which, the permanent location of thl Capitol in Atlanta will give to it, calls for such action on the part .of our City Fathers. There should bo no halting njw by the way. While Atlanta at one time c4>uld afford to do without the Capitol, she can .ret afford to do it now. Investments and ^improvements have been made, and enter prises entered into, ‘with the viewthat Atlanta ‘lsito be the permanent capital of tho State. Liberality, therefore, should characterize the acion of the Council upon a question of so Bidcli importance to the holders of property li it. In a financial point of view, it is of far gretter value to our city than any other enter- pr What tho committee, therefore, desires Or sug’.v sts, wo hope the Council will promptly. Concede. | [This is indeed an important crisis as affect- ilg the “Capitol question,” and present econ- t jy,-no less than the future interests of both e city and the State, suggest such measures as wtll set this matter at rest.] THE DAHLONEGA SIGNAL (DEM.) Says: * We lay before our readers a synopsis of the above named report, carefully prepared, which we copy from the Atlanta New Era; and after an examination of the two reports—one by the Republican and the other by the Democratic whig of . the Investigating Committee—wo be lieve the synopsis to be “scrupulously fair.” The two reports are published m most of the Atlanta papers, and are upon onr table for the inspection of any who doubt the fairness of tiie report of the Era. THE ROME COMMERCIAL (DEM.) Speaking of the preparation to have a “ Citi zens’ Meeting” in Atlanta, on the 16th, to take .roK^ action in relation to the election question; says: ' ■ Wo are’emphatically opposed to the project It smells suspiciously of the treacherous Third Party movement—it smacks of Sam Bard and tiio Hevil—it sounds like an effort to dis and to the fast; extremity. When yon tie organize toe Democratic jaarty, and we hope = lion of St Patrick’s school came off Thursday. The teachers received elegant presents from the scholars. MACON. The Telegraph and Messenger saxs: The injunction prayed for by alarge uum- ber of citizens and tax payers of Macon, to re strain the Mayor and City Council from donat- lng city fuuds or property to Mercer Univer sity, was temporarily granted, yesterday, by Judge Cole, as the Mayor and Council were not ready to respond to the bill of plaintiffs, and until they do respond, the injunction granted will hold good Fine rains on Fri day The Mayor has issued a proclamation. forbidding the assembling of armed men on * H «et- at night, and the shooting of fire arms. MONROE. Dysentery and fever prevail Agricultural and Dctoocratic Convention to-day. ROME. Busiuess reviving Democratic meeting^ to-day. Colored J»eople -getting up a pic-’ EAST TENNESSEE ITEMS. KNOXVILLE. John Robinson’s circus is coming. Jeff. Davirf passed through the city Wednes day on his way to Europe. Fatal chicken disease spreading. A lady found a rattlesnake under her bed the other morning. CHATTANOOGA. Themoineter 97 degrees. Politics lively. An application has been made to Judge C. B. Cole for an injunction restraining the City Council from making any appropriation for Mercer University. GRIFFIN. Byth Barlow hanged yesterday Mas querade last night. NEWNAN. Mrs. Mary Bigby, wife of Judge^Bigby, is dead R. H. Barnes blown up by powder. Not much hurt COLUMBUS. Captain R. B. Lockhart dead New City Ilall progressing. AUGUSTA. One hundred and fifty Port Royal Railroad laborers arrived. They are very mnch excited over tho failure of the contractors, George D. Chapman & Co., to pay their wages....The funeral of Henry Johnson, colored pastor of Thankful Chnrch, took place Thursday. LA GRANGE. Democratic meeting next Tuesday Supe rior Court meets September 24th.,..Mrs. Henry Long is dead Tho Episcopal Con vention met last Wednesday night WEST i*OINT. Crops suffering for want of rain Negro drowned last Sunday Ephraim' Nolan, colored, killed^in a difficulty last Saturday. Poiutx. The papers say that there is a great reaction against “ muscular Christianity ” in England.. Things hre coming to a pretty pass if a Chris tian can’t “travel on his muscle” as well as any other man. Napoleon invites -Bismark to take Chasse- ‘pot luck.” * In the Connecticut Legislature, Miss Olym pia Brown received one vote for the position of Major General, of Militia. Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time that a woman com manded infantry! No babies at Saratoga. And yet people get sumstruck there, every day. Napoleon says, “Victory will follow in the footsteps of his army.” A very safe predic tion, as it would bo equally true in* case of success or defeat • law. Tho law^hs proclaimed and settled tho constituted Authorities, it wonld uphold, even by physical force, if necessary. That is its position, and should he the feeling of every patriot; and tho man whom it opposes would break down every barrier of law in order to hold power and plunder and oppose the peo ple. Such is their purpose now, and against it this journal wages nncompromising, eternal warfare. We would oppose them first in the courts, and the mandates of those tribunals set at naught by them we would oppose? them hand to hand. The Radicals of Georgia would xlo well to remember that they are not omnipotent, and the great political axiom, never'dishonored in this country save by them selves—“Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God”—has yet a dwelling place in the hearts of the American people. [Ours is a government of law. The ques tion referred to is-a legal one, and the Legisla ture is the proper tribunal. Hence your im practicable position.] Democracy (So Called) is Revolution. The following resolutions were adopted by a mass meeting of “Democrats” in Sau Fran cisco: Resolved, That we form ourselves into an organization, both military and civil, in order to maintain our rights as freemen, and rid the State of pestilential Chinese. Resolved, That we wish onr representatives at Washington to inform that intelligent body of lawmakers that, if they will not pass laws to protect and aid us from the further immi gration of these barbarous slaves, we will make both laws and lawmakers, as is our con Commenting on this the Cincinnati Chron icle says: ' ’ .4^. Here is a bold me l nacAqfe(0 general Gov ernment, a threat tbat^tlie Fifteeuth Amend ment to the Constitultojcwiirbe disregarded and over-ridden, antl'ra&Celestials driven out of California by force mness Congress does so and so. It is evkffent that Attorney General Akennan has-not issued his circular of in structions to* marshals, commissioners, and other officers concerning the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution a moment too soon. The resolutions are pervaded by the flam? spirit which led top Southern Democracy ten years ago to threaten secession from the Union unless fresh guarantees for slavery were given. The Democratic Party has but to incorporate these views in its national platform in order to encounter a more overwhelming defeat than it lias ever yet sustained. Thousands of voters who may be Averse to Chinese emigra tion, will yet demand fair play, and frown down any such programme as the California Democracy demand. ' With the change of a few words, the resolu tions would exactly suit the City Hall meeting of Friday last Substitute the word “ Radi cals” for -“Chinese” and the sentiments of the Georgia revolutionists are fully expressed. When men get in bad odor with their own party and too worthless for use by the opposi tion, they want “a third ^arty.” .Nothing is more natural. But somehow the trick sel dom succeeds. Plain honest .people see therein tittle else than the most brazen sel fishness. Feigned issues and ready-made platforms by professional place-hunters Out jit position anti out of public ‘favor, are easily penetrated by top practical men of the world who are sufficiently self-reliant to live without a petty office. Hence we predict that the third party” movement in Georgia xvill nev er rise into respectable notice. Kate Field can swim half-a-mile. ’ ‘duck.” : “ She's £ Beuj. label. Esq., is dead. SAVANNAH. Aid. O’Byrne has been . heard from Charles Holmes, colored, arrested for sssault with intent to murder Street railroad is to bo extended to Habersham strati BAINB RIDGE.' . Market full of melons, apples and peaches. QUITMAN. Judge J. O. Worton, Dr. M. Alexander and J. T. Purdue, Esq., appointed-delegates to the Atlanta State Agricultural Convention. ALBANY. A thunder storm Thursday did considera ble damage to house-tops and shade trees.... Out-houso of Mrs. Edward destroyed by fire .... A tittle colored girl burnt to death Negro shot in a difficulty by a party of whites on Monday last TALBOTtON. Colored barbacue last Saturday. DAWSON. Messrs. Gun & Tucker’s store robbed of seventy dollars on Wednesday night AUGUSTA. The South Carolina Railroad bridge, across the Savannah river, caught on fire Friday morning, but it was soon extinguished Hot weather Crops around the city looking well. COLUMBUS. Weather hot and dry. Business good. Rain needed.. WASHINGTON. Democratic meeting next Tuesday Rase ball flourishing. ATHENS. University High School Exhibition came off Thursday night A good many visitors town to attend the Commencement DAHLONEGA. Wheat crop is turning out well Anew bridge is to be buift over Bearden’s Ford, at a cost of $8,000. ' ' THOMASTON. Senator Wilson on tlie Removal of Motley. The following is the letter of Senator Wilson to President Grant, in relation to the removal of Mr. Motley: United States Senate Chamber, ) Washington, July 5, 1870. ) President Grant—Dear Sir : After much re flection, I have decided that duty demauds that I should write to you my views touching the proposed removal of Mr. Motley. I fear you will make a sad mistake if you remove him. and I beg of you to consider the case carefully belore acting. His removal is be lieved to be aimed at Mr. Sumner. Right or wrong, this will be tbe construction put upon Can you, my dear sir, afford to have such au imputation rest upon your administration V Mr. Motley is on' of the best known and most renowned of our countrymen. Iu letters he is' recognized as one of the < eiuost living iin-i thors of our country or oi no world. Office can odd but tittle to his reputation. Removal from office, while it will wound his feel ings, will not affect his standing among the most cultivated of the age. I assure you, my dear sir, that tho men of Massachusetts, who gkve yon more than seventy-five thousand majority, are proud to number Mr. Motley among their'most loved aud honored sons. They remember that during the was his pen, voice and social influence aud position were on the side of his struggling country. They were grateful to you for his appointment its Minister to Ragland. I need not say that they are sur prised at the rumor that he is to be removed. They are pained to have it said that his re moval is on account of Mr. Sumner s opposi tion to the San Domingo treaty. His removal will be regarded by the Republicans of Massa chusetts as a blow not only at him but nt Mr. Sumner. There has been much feeling about tho treaty. Imprudent wcrdsjhave been utter ed, as they always are when men’s feeling are excited. Perhaps Mr. Sumner may have said things that may have been distasteful to you, but the people of Massachusetts are with him as ten to one. Holding on general principles that the prominent interests of the country would be advanced by a foothold in the Gulf, and wishing to sustain your administration whenever I could do so, I voted for the treaty, though I knew that nine-tenths of the people of my State were against it I had nothing to gain and something to lose by such a vote. I am ready to take the consequences of that vote, but I am not insensible to the fact that tho dismissal of Mr. Motley, und<5r present circumstances, will not only be a loss to your administration, but a blow to me. Person ally I ask nothing, but I do entreat yon, be fore acting, look well to the matter. Your administration is menaced by great opposi tion, and it needs peace and unity among the people and in -Congress. Ttie head of a great party, the President of the United States, lm,s much, to forget and forgive; but ho cau afford to be magnanimous and forgiving. I want to see the President, and Congress in harmony, and the Republican party united and victo rious. To- accomplish this we must all l>e just charitable aud forgiving. “Very truly, Henry Wilson.” Aunt Mary Sledgo, colored, dead at 103. Litttle colored lad drowned onMonday last. Josh. Bailey and Bob. O’Neal had a fight last Saturday. Both badly injured. MACON. Negro mail fatally cut in a fight last Satur day... .Light showers of rain Horses dying rapidly The Telegraph and Messenger has the following on the Mercer University question: A num ber of the tax-imyers and prominent citizens of Macon, through their counsel, Messrs. Hunter and Jamison, Laid before bis Honor, Judge Carlton B. Cole, yesterday, hiU in equity praying for an injunction to re strain tho City Council of Macon from making any appropriations with a -view to securing the location of Mercer University at this point The petitioners base their action upon consti tutional grounds, mid contend that-, under the present charter of the city of Macon limiting her indebtedness to $250*000, the City Coun cil has no power to .make farther appropria tions for any purpose, as the city’s indebted ness has already reached the charter limit The petitioners do not seek to cripple or break down any proper and legal mode for securing a first-class male college in Macon; but they do ask the court, as tax-payers* to restrain the City Council from making appropriations un authorized by law, and; as they think, in pal pable. violation of toe Constitution of the State.. Tho moriteof the case will be argued before Judge Cole at chambers this morning, and his Honor has cited the Mayor and City Conneil to appear and answer the bill of pl&intiflk. i. SAVANNAH. Oiily 385 voters registered John Bowers, second mate of the British vessel Hampton Court* was accidentally drowned on Saturday last:.. .Drayton street is to have a bridge.. The repairs of St. John’s Episcopal Chnrch aru completed:... Hotel waiters run a footrace this afternoon at tho ParaT... Clias. Houston, colored 1 , feU from a scaffold Saturday, seriously injuring hiinself..'. .Rev. Dr. Landrum has re turned to tho city. AUGUSTA. River rising... .Crowds of the Port Royal laborers are loafing about the city The friends.of the common school' system held a meeting Friday.night., ~.Theannual examinn- Mu*t Cotton Culture l»c Abandoned: Dr. D. L. Phares, iu The Rural Carolinian for August, in answer to the question, “Will the Caterpillar cause cotton culture to cease?” says: I think this will occur, at least, in many districts,, unless, guided by intelligence, the farmers unite their efforts to repel toe destroy er. Many years ago, the annual destruction by this pest of cotton, iu a portion of Louisi ana which I repeatedly visited, forced planters to abandon its culture. The plant being de stroyed in June and July did not mature seed enough to plant auother crop. In portions of other States, the results of cotton culture have sometimes been equally disastrous. This, however, is not likely to become general in all toe States every year. I am often asked, “Do you thiuk cotton- worms will come this year?” Now, I do not. believe they have ever been entirely absent from the United States since 1793. I suppose they have been in America as long as cotton has been grown, and will continue here prob ably as long as we raise annual crops of that staple. Some have supposed’'toe caterpillars more destructive every third year; others look for them every twenty-first year, because very widely destructive iu 1804, 1825, aud 1840. Hence, many expected a total, loss of the crop of 1867. But that year tlie 1 destruction was little greater than any one of the three immediately preceding years, and certainly much less than in 1868. There is no definite period of greater or less invasion. Yet there may be an approximation. In a lunar cycle of nineteen years we have a series of eclipses very nearly repeating those of- the preceding cycle, - and to be reproduced iu the suc ceeding one. There nro cycles in which the magnetic needle oscillates through a limited arc of a circle. .So there | other cycles of other phenom ena; -among them, cycles of .meteoric phenomena, or of seasons/ as they are failed, in which an average year of one cycle corres ponds with some year of another. That is„ the amount ami character of rain, liail, snow, fog, clouds, heat ai)d cold are repeated aud similarly distributed through the year. Cer tain meteoric phenomena Increase from year to year till they culminate; then gradually retrograde, to be repeated iu a succeeding cycle. It Is upon these meteoric states that the greater or less abundant propagation of the chenilles depends. Like other in sects, thev are extremely sensitive to atmos pheric changes—more so than many of the delicate testa contrived by liumau skill and ingenuity. Hence, during some years, the chenilles appears to be swopt entirely H\vay; again, meteoric conditions favoring, more aud more in certain localities, the insect increases correspondingly, till finally one or more years culminate in wide-spread destruction of the cotton. Persons who have observed closely for years, may, in June, without knowing' whether there are any cotton moths in any stage in top* bn tire country, predict with al most perfect certainty from meteoric condi tions whether or how r much the crop will ho damaged by them daring the succeeding, months. •